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Table of content

• Track Compendium
• Acknowledgements and Preface
• Introduction
• Contents
• 1 General information
• 2 The track structure
• 2.1 Track design considerations
• 2.2 Static forces on the track
• 2.3 Dynamic forces on the track
• 2.4 Track resistance
• 2.5 Track calculation
• 2.6 Modern track design considering dynamic effects
• 2.7 Stable support of the rails and sleepers
• 2.8 Conclusions for track maintenance
• 2.9 Maintenance techniques
• 3 The rails
• 3.1 Rail requirements
• 3.2 Rail production
• 3.3 Types of rails
• 3.4 Chemical composition of rail steel
• 3.5 Static hardness test
• 3.6 Stress-strain diagram
• 3.7 Rail branding
• 3.8 Rail types
• 3.9 Rail lengths
• 3.10 Noise emission of rails
• 3.11 Rail stress
• 3.12 Quenching and tempering of rails
• 3.13 Rail strength calculation
• 3.14 Endurance resistance of rails
• 3.15 Wear behaviour of wheel and rail steel
• 3.16 Rail welding
• 3.17 Laying, welding and tensioning of rails
• 3.18 Rail defects
• 3.19 Rail treatment in the track
• 4 Rail fastenings
• 4.1 The CEN standard on rail fastenings
• 4.2 The purpose of the rail fastenings
• 4.3 The effective forces
• 4.4 Differences between rigid/elastic rail fastenings
• 4.5 The rail pads
• 4.6 The design of rail fastenings
• 4.7 Checking the rail connections
• 4.8 Checking rail fastenings by the GRMS track recording car
• 5 The sleepers
• 5.1 Comparison between wooden and concrete sleepers
• 5.2 The purpose of sleepers
• 5.3 Wooden sleepers
• 5.4 Steel sleepers
• 5.5 Reinforced concrete sleepers
• 5.6 Sleeper calculation
• 5.7 Resistance to lateral and longitudinal displacement
• 6 Ballast and the ballast bed
• 6.1 Ballast bed requirements
• 6.2 Physical properties of ballast and shearing behaviour
• 6.3 Ballast Cleaning
• 6.4 Ballast bed dimensioning
• 6.5 Restoration of the ballast bed
• 6.6 Gluing of ballast
• 7 The track formation
• 7.1 General information on the bearing capacity of the track
• 7.2 Drainage of the subsoil
• 7.3 Reinforcement of the formation
• 8 The subsoil
• 8.1 Types of soils and their parameters
• 8.2 Properties of soils
• 8.3 Defects of the soil formation
• 8.4 Reasons for damage to the soil formation
• 8.5 Consequences of damage to the soil formation
• 8.6 Ideal and poor soils
• 8.7 Stress on the subsoil and its settlement behaviour
• 8.8 Subsoil and earth structure deformations
• 8.9 Load on the soil formation
• 8.10 Geometrical requirements for the soil formation
• 8.11 Soil analyses
• 8.12 Soil improvement and compaction
• 8.13 Chemical soil conversion
• 8.14 Soil drainage
• 8.15 Frost sensitivity of the subsoil
• 9 Types of track
• 9.1 Ballasted track
• 9.2 In search of an optimum track structure
• 9.3 How to produce track of highest initial quality
• 9.4 Ballasted tracks with cross sleepers
• 9.5 Ballasted track for high-speed lines
• 10 Slab track
• 10.1 Requirements of slab track
• 10.2 Slab track in tunnels
• 10.3 Slab track on earth structures
• 10.4 Comparison between ballasted track and slab track
• 10.5 Economic efficiency and cost of slab track
• 10.6 Design types of slab track
• 10.7 Comparison of overall heights of various designs of slab track
• 10.8 Technical and economic comparison of the slab track designs
• 11 Interaction between wheel and rail
• 11.1 Dynamics of vehicle movement
• 11.2 The contact between wheel and rail
• 11.3 The influence of the rail/wheel contact geometry
• 11.4 Vehicle defects
• 11.5 Forces acting on the track due to dynamic wheel loads
• 11.6 Rail vehicle noise
• 11.7 Assessment and measurement of vehicle reactions
• 11.8 The requirements to be met by vehicles for track
• 11.9 The optimum vehicle
• 11.10 Tilting trains
• 11.11 Vehicle monitoring
• 12 Turnouts
• 12.1 The functions of turnouts, crossings and diamond crossings with slips
• 12.2 The main types of turnouts, crossings and diamond crossings with slips
• 12.3 Designation of turnouts
• 12.4 Elements of turnouts
• 12.5 The vibration-damped turnout with divided long bearers
• 12.6 Geometric and structural characteristics of turnouts
• 12.7 Schematic representation of turnouts
• 12.8 Settlement behaviour of turnouts
• 12.9 Maintenance of turnouts
• 12.10 Rail adjustment switches
• 13 Overhead line system
• 13.1 Types of traction current
• 13.2 Direct current systems (DC
• 13.3 Alternating current systems (AC
• 13.4 Catenary
• 13.5 Air distances
• 13.6 Various designs of overhead lines
• 13.7 Structure of longitudinal catenary
• 13.8 Return of traction current
• 13.9 Permissible contact voltage
• 13.10 Interaction between current collectors and overhead line
• 14 Fundamentals on control and signalling in railway operation
• 14.1 Block sections
• 14.2 Track circuits
• 14.2.1 Insulated rails
• 14.2.2 Insulating joints
• 14.3 Axle counters
• 14.4 Intermittent automatic train control
• 14.5 Continuous train control (CTC)
• 14.6 The European rail traffic management system ERTMS
• 14.7 Automatic train stop
• 14.8 Hot box detection
• 15 Track maintenance
• 15.1 Typical maintenance cycles
• 15.2 Standard values for maintenance and danger limits
• 15.3 Accuracy of acceptance
• 15.4 Considerations on track quality
• 15.5 The choice of the optimum duration of track possessions
• 15.6 Correction of track geometry
• 15.7 Correction of rail defects
• 15.8 Ballast bed treatment
• 15.9 Subsoil improvement
• 15.10 Laying and relaying of rails and sleepers
• 15.11 Laying and transportation of turnouts
• 15.12 Track construction cranes
• 15.13 Maintenance of overhead lines
• 16 Life cycle costs of railways
• 16.1 UIC study comparing the life cycle costs (LCC) of railways
• 16.2 Factors forcing up costs
• 16.3 Cost saving potentials
• 16.4 Differential LCC
• 16.5 Track maintenance costs
• 16.6 The effect of mechanisation on the economic efficiency of track maintenance
• 16.7 Track access charges
• Bibliography
• Keywords
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