Determining lateral resistance of sleeper in railway ballast

Abstract

Within a project of Technology Agency of the Czech Republic No. TA 04030889 “Operational diagnostic of qualitative indicators of railway tracks by means of gauging its spatial deformation.” Empirical cross-resistance tests of sleepers in railway ballast were carried out in geotechnical laboratory test field (GLTF) of the Transport research center in Brno (TRC). The tests were done in collaboration with Czech Technical University in Prague, Department of Railway Structures (ČVUT).