A Comparative Analysis of Timber and Composite Sleepers
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Paper/Presentation Title | A Comparative Analysis of Timber and Composite Sleepers |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Askarinejad, Hossein, Zeng, Jiaya and Ferdous, Wahid |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering (CSEE'22) |
Article Number | ICSECT 184 |
Number of Pages | 5 |
Year | 2022 |
ISBN | 9781927877999 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.11159/icsect22.184 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | https://avestia.com/CSEE2022_Proceedings/files/paper/ICSECT/ICSECT_184.pdf |
Conference/Event | 7th World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering (CSEE'22) |
Event Details | 7th World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering (CSEE'22) Parent World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering (CSEE) Delivery Online Event Date 10 to end of 12 Apr 2022 Event Web Address (URL) |
Abstract | – Traditionally, timber sleepers have been widely used in railways around the world; however, timber sleepers are prone to various forms of damage and failure. Additionally, recent decrease in supply of suitable wood for timber sleepers has generated interests in various railways to explore alternative materials for sleeper manufacturing including composites. This paper briefly compares the main mechanical properties of timber sleepers and glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites. Additionally, finite element analyses of the sleepers are undertaken and the von-misses stress and vertical deflection of the timber and GFRP sleepers under static load are evaluated and discussed. |
Keywords | composite sleepers; finite element analysis; Railways; timber sleepers |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 400510. Structural engineering |
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Byline Affiliations | Ara Institute of Canterbury, New Zealand |
University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/x8zy2/a-comparative-analysis-of-timber-and-composite-sleepers
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