Publication detail

Plastic Sleeper Anchors in Czech Republic

SVOBODA, R. PLÁŠEK, O. HRUZÍKOVÁ, M. VALENTA, M. MALOVANÝ, L.

Original Title

Plastic Sleeper Anchors in Czech Republic

Type

conference proceedings

Language

English

Original Abstract

Sleeper anchors are used to increase lateral resistance of sleepers in continuous welded rail. Steel sleeper anchors are commonly used in the Czech Republic at present time. Chládek & Tintěra Pradubice company came up with the idea to use recycled plastic for the sleeper anchors production. The advantage of recycled plastic is less environmental impact and corrosion resistance. On the other hand problems with resistant to load were anticipated. This paper presents laboratory test of material of plastic anchors EVA V production. These tests were done during the developing of the plastic anchor shape. Similarly, in-situ tests were done on the trial test section to compare sleeper with plastic and steel anchors lateral resistance and sleepers without anchors lateral resistance are presented. For the supply of plastic sleeper anchors were parallel with the laboratory and in-situ tests compiled the technical specifications for control tests and where are listed all controllable conditions. These tests are described in this paper as well

Keywords

Rail Infrastructure; Sleeper anchors; continuous welded rail; tearing resistance; lateral resistance

Authors

SVOBODA, R.; PLÁŠEK, O.; HRUZÍKOVÁ, M.; VALENTA, M.; MALOVANÝ, L.

Released

28. 4. 2014

Publisher

Department of Transport, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb

Location

Zagreb

ISBN

1848-9842

Book

Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Road and Rail Infrastructure - CETRA 2014

Edition number

1

Pages from

499

Pages to

507

Pages count

8

BibTex

@proceedings{BUT113309,
  editor="Richard {Svoboda} and Otto {Plášek} and Miroslava {Hruzíková} and Milan {Valenta} and Lubomír {Malovaný}",
  title="Plastic Sleeper Anchors in Czech Republic",
  year="2014",
  number="1",
  pages="499--507",
  publisher="Department of Transport, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb",
  address="Zagreb",
  isbn="1848-9842"
}