Behaviour of railway panels with limited number of sleepers subjected to lateral impact loads

Dynamic lateral performance of ballasted railways

Greetings everybody, Each component of tracks has a contribution to the lateral resistance provided against various types of lateral loading, which, in nature, could be static, cyclic or one-off high-magnitude impacts. Of particular interest may be quantifying the share of rails, rail-pads, and sleepers in contact with their adjacent ballast layer under the conditions mentioned above. Main goals might include in particular establishing correlations between track-side field and/or laboratory outputs and those of real-world scenarios, e.g. during trains traversing tracks, as well as prospective relationships among track lateral resistance under various circumstances. Note: Researching on this field is highly encouraged and appreciated by many scholars including us, and any help would definitely be offered to push the science boundaries in this field. Thanks all, Ahmad Hosseini (On behalf of Prof. Morteza Esmaeili)