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Dear Colleagues, someone can recommend me a book or a paper where I can find something about the geotechnical design of ballast and subgrade for railroads.


Thankyou

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There was a lot of work on this out of Queens University in Ontario.  The guy's name escapes me at present but he was pretty famous.  I will try to look around and find out.  Sorry I can't be of more direct help at this time.

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Sorry - forgot to add - check out Canadian Geotechnical Journal and ASCE Transportation Journal, aka 1970s.

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The guy's name was "Raymond".  For a 113 page bibliography of Railroad Ballast, go to:

www.solid.ikp.liu.se/Research/Eurobalt.txt

Open, hit CtrA, copy it, paste to Word, change margins to 1" each side and it will show up on page nicely.

Hope this has helped -sorry for so many posts.  

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BigH, thank you for your comments, they are of great utility.

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An excellent book for this topic is "Track Geotechnology and Substructure Management" by Ernest Selig and John Waters. It is published by Thomas Telford. You could probably get a copy through Amazon. Good Luck.

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adpeng, thankyou for the tip.

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If interested in ballast strength, a good (and recent) source is Indraratna et al. (1998) "Shear behavior of railway ballast based on large-scale triaxial tests" ASCE JGGE 124(5).

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harney, I appreciate the comment a lot. Thank you

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