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. The book discusses the application of innovative materials derived from waste and recycled railway components, including tyre-derived aggregates, recycled ballast, Neoballast, and polyurethane (often referred to as ballast glue).
Finally, the book examines state-of-the-art structural health monitoring techniques, such as smart sleepers, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), ground-penetrating radar, and inspection robots.
Finally, the book examines state-of-the-art structural health monitoring techniques, such as smart sleepers, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), ground-penetrating radar, and inspection robots.
Table of Contents
1. Ballast and ballasted track2. 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
Authors
Yunlong Guo Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.Dr Yunlong Guo is MSC Fellow at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, and young editorial board member of the "Journal of Railway Science and Engineering� and Guest Editor of "Transportation Geotechnics.� His research focuses on railway geotechnics and railway structure monitoring with cutting-edge methods (DIC, PIV, GPR, image analysis
Guoqing Jing Beijing Jiaotong University, China. Dr Jing is currently Professor of Highway and Railway Engineering Department at Beijing Jiaotong University, China. He obtained his PhD degree in civil engineering from INSA de Rennes, France. He served as a Vice Director of the State Key Lab of Waterproof for China, and Guest Professor for UMP, Malaysia etc. Professor Jing is currently working on ballasted track, especially recycled and composite materials, with numerical tools DEM and FEM
