Cracks in turnout sleepers -- Conclusions from a questionnaire to the UIC Track Expert Group
Report, 2021

To investigate the occurrence of cracks in turnout sleepers, how these were assessed and handled, a questionnaire was sent out to 15 members of the UIC Track expert group in December 2020. By February 20, 2021, eleven responses have been received. The responses are summarised and commented below.

Author

Melker Pettersson

Swedish Transport Administration

Anders Ekberg

Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Dynamics

Rikard Bolmsvik

Anders Hammar

Ulf Malmqvist

Research into enhanced track and switch and crossing system 2 (In2Track-2)

Swedish Transport Administration, 2018-11-01 -- 2021-10-31.

European Commission (EC) (EC/H2020/826255), 2018-11-01 -- 2021-10-31.

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Innovation and entrepreneurship

Areas of Advance

Transport

Subject Categories

Applied Mechanics

Infrastructure Engineering

Publisher

Chalmers

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Latest update

4/28/2022