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This chapter deals with the tenets involved in the construction of ballasted track (conventional track) and ballastless track (slab track). In addition, it provides a synthetic description of railway track components as well as materials, characteristics and properties.
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Italian specifications for rails and switches “RFI TCAR SF AR 02 001 C”.
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Although the lines of equal pressure are bulb-shaped, yet for simplicity, the load dispersion can be assumed to be linear with a given inclination to the vertical.
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Anti-vibrating mats are characterised with a variable density ranging between 75 –170 kg/m3, resistance to compression between 14 and 50 kPa, static elasticity modulus between 0.15 and 0.85 N/mm2 and dynamic elasticity modulus between 0.35 N/mm2 and 3.6 N/mm2.
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Guerrieri, M. (2023). The Railway Track. In: Fundamentals of Railway Design. Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24030-0_3
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