READ ME File For 'Research data - The influence of sleeper material characteristics on railway track behaviour: concrete vs composite sleeper'

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1260

ReadMe Author: Louis Le Pen, University of Southampton [0000-0002-4362-3895]

This dataset supports the publication:
AUTHORS: E. FERRO, J. HARKNESS, L. LE PEN
TITLE: The influence of sleeper material characteristics on railway track behaviour: concrete vs composite sleeper
JOURNAL: Transportation Geotechnics
PAPER DOI IF KNOWN: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2020.100348


This dataset contains:
Data behind the graphs shown in this publication

The figures are as follows:

Fig. 3  Flexural rigidity of the composite and concrete sleeper
Fig. 6  Lab tests, distribution of the resilient deflections along the sleepers at key numbers of load cycles
Fig. 7  Lab tests, sleeper resilient deflections vs number of load cycles
Fig. 8  Lab tests, sleeper settlement vs number of load cycles
Fig. 12  BOEF, sleeper resilient deflections in the short term (uniform support)
Fig. 13  BOEF, ballast pressures in the short-term (uniform support)
Fig. 14  Sleeper long-term flexural behaviour (voided sleeper ends)
Fig. 16  Indenter model, load vs indentation depth relationship for loading and unloading/reloading
Fig. 18  DEM simulations, sleeper displacement in the first load cycles
Fig. 19  DEM simulations, sleeper settlement vs number of load cycles
Fig. 20  DEM simulations, percentage of total vertical load taken by the particles grouped by vertical force at maximum load at 300 load cycles


Date of data collection: from September 2017 to December 2017

Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution

Related projects:
In2Rail H2020-MG-2014, 635900
Track to the Future (EP/M025276/1)


Date that the file was created: February, 2020