Calibration for discrete element modelling of railway ballast: A review

Y Guo, C Zhao, V Markine, G Jing, W Zhai - Transportation Geotechnics, 2020 - Elsevier
The discrete element method (DEM) has been confirmed as an effective numerical method
for modelling railway ballast, and successfully used to analyse a wide range of ballast …

Smart railway sleepers-a review of recent developments, challenges, and future prospects

G Jing, M Siahkouhi, JR Edwards, MS Dersch… - … and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
To date, the application of self-sensing or other structural health monitoring (SHM)
technologies in railway sleepers is limited. Development and deployment of smart sleepers …

[HTML][HTML] Railway ballast performance: recent advances in the understanding of geometry, distribution and degradation

C Shi, Z Fan, DP Connolly, G Jing, V Markine… - Transportation …, 2023 - Elsevier
Railway ballast performance is dictated by a complex mix of mechanical properties. These
effect its performance at the particle level for example in terms of particle degradation, but …

State-of-the-art review of ground penetrating radar (GPR) applications for railway ballast inspection

S Wang, G Liu, G Jing, Q Feng, H Liu, Y Guo - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the past 20 years, many studies have been performed on ballast layer inspection and
condition evaluation with ground penetrating radar (GPR). GPR is a non-destructive means …

[HTML][HTML] YADE-An extensible framework for the interactive simulation of multiscale, multiphase, and multiphysics particulate systems

V Angelidakis, K Boschi, K Brzeziński, RA Caulk… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
This contribution presents the key elements of YADE, an extensible open-source framework
for dynamic simulations. During the past 19 years, YADE has evolved from “Yet Another …

Superposition‐based concurrent multiscale approaches for poromechanics

W Sun, J Fish, P Ni - International Journal for Numerical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Superposition‐based concurrent multiscale approaches for poromechanical problems
aimed at resolving localized fluid flow and deformation of a solid skeleton including its …

Two-dimensional DEM-FEM coupling analysis of seismic failure and anti-seismic measures for concrete faced rockfill dam

Y Qu, D Zou, J Liu, Z Yang, K Chen - Computers and Geotechnics, 2022 - Elsevier
The concrete faced rockfill dam is composed of granular materials and the failure pathways
typically exhibits multi-scale mechanical behavior. In this paper, a 2D polygonal DEM-FEM …

Contact between rigid convex NURBS particles based on computer graphics concepts

MV Craveiro, AG Neto, P Wriggers - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the discrete element method (DEM), the geometric description of each particle is important
for the overall system behavior. However, increasing complexity of particles also augments …

Discrete element analysis of shape effect on the shear behaviors of ballast

W Hou, A Li, W Song - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Railway ballast layer is an indispensable component of railway transport. Ballast
morphology plays an important effect in ballast-sleeper interaction and the durability of …

Study on structural health monitoring of vertical vibration of ballasted track in high-speed railway

G Liu, P Li, P Wang, J Liu, J Xiao, R Chen… - Journal of Civil Structural …, 2021 - Springer
The ballasted track structure of a high-speed railway repeatedly bears the action of vehicle
loads, and the vibration energy is gradually diluted and dissipated due to the ballasted bed …