Abstract: In order to ascertain the temperature distribution characteristics of a ballastless track, heat transfer mechanisms between the concrete slab and the environment were investigated, and a field temperature test of the ballastless track was conducted. The spectrum analysis method was used to study the...
Abstract: Lateral resistance data were obtained through a field experiment in a high-speed railway to reveal the working mechanism of the lateral resistance of glued ballast. The change characteristics of the lateral resistance of the glued ballast were analysed. Moreover, a three-dimensional discrete element...
Abstract: In order to study the mechanical characteristics and reuse of a washed recycled ballast, a Los Angeles abrasion tester and strain-controlled direct shear apparatus were used in experiments to investigate the stress-strain characteristics of recycled ballast with different proportions of fresh ballas...
Abstract: To investigate the fatigue performance and fatigue life assessment method of full-penetration welded joints in tensile shear cyclic stress, fatigue tests and finite element analyses were carried out. With different inclined angles of weld lines of 0°, 15°, 30°, and 45°, full-penetration cruciform we...
Abstract: The Pingtan Strait Bridge is in a complex and harsh marine environment. The wave loads could affect traffic safety and comfortability.Based on the numerical simulation for coupling vibration of the rail vehicle-bridge system,our software-BANSYS (bridge analysis system) was adopted for analysing the ...
Abstract: To fill a gap in the field of dynamic constitutive model research of concrete, a dynamic damage constitutive model for concrete was established based on a nonlinear viscoelastic constitutive model and damage mechanics, while considering the effect of damage on the mechanical properties of the materi...
Abstract: In order to establish a continuous smooth model of spatial prestressed steel beam include both horizontal and vertical curvature, to consider the mechanical effects of spatial prestressed steel beam in finite element analysis, the refined finite element modeling method of spatial prestressed steel b...
Abstract: The Beipanjiang bridge is a 445 m concrete arch reinforced rigid skeleton bridge on the high-speed railway from Shanghai to Kunming. The bridge deck is designed to comply with design rail speeds of 350 km/h and subsequently requires strictly controlled stresses and deformation for this ballast-less ...
Abstract: A structural reliability design method for a non-backfilling arch open tunnel structure under rockfall impaction was investigated to improve the reliability of structural design. Firstly, in view of the characteristics of the failure modes of a non-backfilling arch open tunnel under rockfall impacti...
Abstract: To study the effects of material damage and structural characteristics in a tunnel shield during loading and unloading, we conducted an investigation using a plastic-damage constitutive model for the concrete material, nonlinear contact theory, Python's secondary development, and a unidirectional co...
Abstract: To study the seismic response and anti-seismic behaviour of immersed tunnels at different sites, shaking table tests were conducted in three sets. The reduced-scale ratio of the tests was 1:30. The site conditions adopted in the tests were dry sand, saturated sand, and saturated sand under an overly...
Abstract: As for the common practice that the two-dimensional(2D) model is approximately employed to the three-dimensional(3D) model in numerical calculation of geotechnical engineering, 2D and 3D dynamic responses induced by the metro train vibration were analyzed. Train vibration load on the track bed was d...
Abstract: To study the effect of pile shape on the buckling behaviour of a tapered pile, the first-type stability of the tapered pile was analyzed based on the cusp catastrophe model of the pile-soil system with considering the self-weight of the pile. By determining the potential function and the equations o...
Abstract: In order to investigate the effect of subgrade settlement on the track geometry of the slab track, a calculation method for the mapping relationship between rail deflection and subgrade settlement was proposed, aiming at both longitudinal connected track and unit slab track of high-speed railways. T...
Abstract: Three bamboo-concrete composite beams and one companion bamboo beam were tested to investigate the composite efficiency and the effects of shear connectors on bamboo-concrete composite beams. The shear connectors of these composite beams consisted of dowels, notches or notch-dowels. The results indi...
Abstract: To study the influence of near-fault pulse-like ground motions on the seismic performance of masonry-timber heritage structures in Nepal, a two-storey Nepalese masonry-timber structure was selected as a prototype according to the typical seismic damage mode in the Gorkha earthquake. A numerical simu...
Abstract: In order to research seismic behaviours of masonry structures confined by tie-columns and beams, a 1:2 pseudo-static model test of a two-storied brick masonry building with confined elements was conducted. The mechanical characteristics, the strain development of tensioned bars in the constructional...
Abstract: In order to investigate the failure mechanism and structural performance of axially loaded concrete-encased concrete filled steel tubular (CFST) stub columns after fire exposure, the failure mode, axial compression ultimate bearing capacity and axial stiffness of concrete-encased CFST stub columns w...
Abstract: To realize the real-time monitoring and quick diagnosis of defects in rolling trainbearings, an approach is proposed based on the time and frequency analysis of signal characteristics, especially the combination of time-domain characteristics analysis and resonance demodulation based on wavelet tran...
Abstract: In order to improve the safety of high-speed train operation in cold weather, the braking performance of a high-speed EMU train in temperature range from -15℃ to 20℃ in rain and snowy conditions was simulated and the causes of decline in braking force and scratching of the brake disk surface were in...
Abstract: In order to reflect the real-world operation situation of an urban mass transit network, on the basis of complex network theory, the influence of passenger flow was considered to improve the recognition accuracy of the key stations in the network. By analyzing the sources of passenger flow in each s...
Abstract: Incorporating biochar into bioretention filter media was proposed to enhance urban stormwater treatment. Pinewood biochar pyrolysed at 550℃ was used to investigate its impact on the physicochemical properties of bioretention filter media and their ammonium sorption capacities in artificial stormwate...
Abstract: Pantograph dynamic contact force is the key factor for assessing the current collection quality of a pantograph, operation conditions of the catenary, abrasion on the pantograph slide, and the localized defect detection of the catenary. Taking into account the drawbacks of currently used methods, a ...
Abstract: In order to prolong the lifetime of wireless sensor networks by using energy-rechargeable mobile devices, this paper designs a mobile energy replenishment method wherein a mobile element gathers data and recharges sensors simultaneously. Firstly, the whole sensor network is divided into several sub-...
Abstract: In order to address the issue of branch decision-making inefficiency in solving the satisfiability problem (SAT), a heuristic complete algorithm based on logical deduction group (LDG) is proposed. Specifically, the proposed algorithm chooses the remaining unsolved clauses to make the logical deducti...
Abstract: During the running of a train, the lock-and-slip state of a wheel may occur and hence, an Odometers (ODO) will temporarily display the state of functional failure. To address this issue, fault analysis of ODO based on the application of hidden Markov model (HMM) has been carried out. Firstly, an alg...