Autorentext

Dr. Yunlong Guo is a Marie Skodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He earned his PhD in Civil Engineering from Delft University of Technology. His research specializes in railway geotechnics and railway structure monitoring, employing advanced methodologies such as digital twins and machine learning.

Dr. Guoqing Jing is a Professor at the Highway and Railway Engineering Department at Beijing Jiaotong University, China. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering from INSA de Rennes, France. Previously, he served as the Vice Director of the State Key Laboratory of Waterproof Materials in China and as a Guest Professor at UMP, Malaysia. Professor Jing's current research focuses on ballasted track engineering, with an emphasis on recycled and composite materials. His work extensively utilizes numerical methods such as the discrete element method.

Klappentext
Resilient, Sustainable and Smart Ballasted Railway Track explores the optimization of railway ballast tracks to achieve resilience, sustainability, and intelligence in railway infrastructure. It summarizes and examines new technologies and developments that address unresolved rapid defects in track components, such as rail damage, track stability, ballast flight, and ballast fouling. This book discusses the application of innovative materials derived from waste and recycled railway components, including derived aggregates, recycled ballast, Neoballast, and polyurethane (often referred to as ballast glue). This book examines state-of-the-art structural health monitoring techniques, such as smart sleepers, interferometric synthetic aperture radar, ground-penetrating radar, and inspection robots.

Inhalt

1. Ballast and ballasted track
2. Ballast material selection and evaluation
3. Special structures
4. Geotechnical laboratory test on ballast
5. Sleeper ballast interactions (lateral resistance)
6. Sleeper ballast interaction (longitudinal resistance)
7. Sleeper ballast interaction (vertical stiffness)
8. Rail and management
9. Recycled materials of railway sleeper
10. Smart railway sleeper
11. Composite materials of ballasted track
12. Image analysis for ballast
13. Discrete element method application
14. Polyurethane reinforced ballasted track
15. Ballast flight
16. Drainage
17. Inspection Robots
18. Maintenance and management
19. Railway ballast fouling mechanism, inspection and solutions
20. Developing trend and perspectives