Towards better understanding of railway ballast

Posted by on November 22, 2017 2:36 pm
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Mathematical models are extremely limited at modeling ballast, the gravel layer located under railway tracks. Researchers have shown that a large part of the energy introduced by a train passing is trapped by the ballast. Their work shows that this trapping phenomenon, which is very dependent on train speed, could cause accelerated ballast degradation in railway tracks.

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