Traditional ballasted tracks have been used intensively around the world with ballast as the
main material for tracks. Ballast has a significant contribution to the track alignment, stability …

Railway tracks degrade faster at transition zones to railway bridges. In modern lines,
backfills with bound and unbound granular geomaterials have been used to minimize this …

Railway track designers and maintenance entities have long been pursuing for a robust and
reliable method to predict the track's long-term behaviour. The complexity of this railway …

Transition zones in railway tracks are the locations with considerable changes in supporting
structures. Because of the difference in the structures or material properties, the differential …

Transition zones to bridges and other structures are critical locations in railway tracks that
frequently evidence poor long-term performance. Under sleeper pads (USPs) are reported …

In this paper, an improved nonlinear model of railway ballast is proposed based on the
modified Ludwik model. The accuracy of model-based structural damage detection relies on …

Sudden changes in the structural and geotechnical properties of railway tracks along its
course are normally associated with subgrade stiffness transitions, differential settlements …

Transition zones between embankments and bridges or tunnels are examples of critical
assets of the railway infrastructure. These locations often exhibit higher degradations rates …

From the literature, time domain and modal domain data are commonly used in system
identification and damage detection of various systems. This paper focuses on the …

The effective maintenance and health monitoring of ballasted railway tracks, which involves
the determination of differential settlement, track support stress and stiffness, and the strain …