Publication detail

Under Sleeper Pads in Switches & Crossings

PLÁŠEK, O. HRUZÍKOVÁ, M.

Original Title

Under Sleeper Pads in Switches & Crossings

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Under sleeper pads (USPs) have been installed in the Czech railway lines since 2007 into two trial sections in switches and crossings and in a trial section with the aim to reduce rail pitch corrugation. The basic motivation for the construction of the trial track sections in turnouts was an evaluation of USPs' influence on improvement of track quality as a consequence of ballast bed protection against extreme stress. The paper comprises experience of USPs installation in the Czech Republic in the two trial sections with switches and crossings built in 2007 and 2014. The paper particularly provides an information about USPs applications focusing on the track settlement received by an evaluation of data from the geodetic surveying by precise levelling. Some positive influence of under sleeper pads on the track quality is observed.

Keywords

railway infrastructure, switches and crossings, under sleeper pads

Authors

PLÁŠEK, O.; HRUZÍKOVÁ, M.

Released

21. 9. 2017

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD, DIRAC HOUSE, TEMPLE BACK, BRISTOL BS1 6BE, ENGLAND

Location

Praha

ISBN

1757-8981

Periodical

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

Year of study

236

Number

1

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

1

Pages to

8

Pages count

8

URL

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/236/1/012045

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/137154

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT145160,
  author="Otto {Plášek} and Miroslava {Hruzíková}",
  title="Under Sleeper Pads in Switches & Crossings",
  booktitle="IOP Conference Series-Materials Science and Engineering",
  year="2017",
  series="IOP Conference Series-Materials Science and Engineering",
  journal="IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering",
  volume="236",
  number="1",
  pages="1--8",
  publisher="IOP PUBLISHING LTD, DIRAC HOUSE, TEMPLE BACK, BRISTOL BS1 6BE, ENGLAND",
  address="Praha",
  doi="10.1088/1757-899X/236/1/012045",
  issn="1757-8981",
  url="http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/236/1/012045"
}