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Having the aim of promoting the application of BIM—Building Information Modeling—in the railway sector, this paper’s main objective is to analyze the BIM implementation in the particular case of rail track rehabilitation and inspection. BIM enables the computational development of projects during their lifecycle including all the phases. Three-dimensional (3D) modeling using Civil 3D® software was applied to the rehabilitation of a rail track in service. The following tasks were carried out: (1) the modeling of the geometry of the railway infrastructure; and (2) the capacity analysis to extract diverse information from the model, in particular the geometric parameters of the rail track: gauge and transversal leveling. Revit® software was also used to model the project. Families were created relating to the sleepers and fastenings and to the rails. Other rail track components, such as the ballast, sub-ballast, geosynthetics, and foundation, were generated as slab layers in the infrastructure component. In order to create a four-dimensional (4D) model that includes the time factor, Navisworks® software was used. The 4D model allows for simulation of the rehabilitation sequence of the rail track, including the application of geotextile and geogrid under the ballast layer. It was concluded that the use of the 3D model can present limitations to the implementation of the BIM methodology, particularly with respect to interoperability in the transference of models between softwares. Regarding the inspection and maintenance of the rail track, some limitations were observed in the storage and processing of relevant information.
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The authors would like to thank the Portuguese Railway Infrastructure Agency (“Infraestruturas de Portugal, SA”), for the permission to use and disseminate the project information related to the case study described in the paper, and CERIS (Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability).
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Neves, J., Sampaio, Z., Vilela, M. (2022). Analysis of BIM Implementation on Railway Infrastructures Through an Application to Rail Track Rehabilitation and Inspection. In: Tutumluer, E., Nazarian, S., Al-Qadi, I., Qamhia, I.I. (eds) Advances in Transportation Geotechnics IV. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 166. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77238-3_50
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