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Title: Designing high-speed train railway embankments using finite element analysis
Authors: Egeli, İsfendiyar
Usun, Handan
Keywords: Embankment design
Fill settlements
High-speed trains railways
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Source: Egeli, İ., and Usun, H. (2012). Designing high-speed train railway embankments using finite element analysis. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 37(8), 2127-2136. doi:10.1007/s13369-012-0302-6
Abstract: Design and construction of high-speed train railway (HSTR) infrastructure is different from that for normal trains, since high geometric standards and material properties are involved. For example, HSTR embankments are designed to limit total-differential settlements to minute amounts. In this study, a typical 'slab-track' type HSTR embankment was used to investigate the replaceability of one fill strata known as 'uncemented-prepared-subgrade layer' (U-PSL), constructed by using a locally obtained medium sand, as opposed to various 'cemented-prepared-subgrade layers' (C-PSL), whose mixes were prepared at two water-to-cement (w/c) ratios and three cement contents (c). Three size cylindrical samples were cast, 7-28 days water cured and were tested to obtain the unconfined compressive stresses, strains, elasticity moduli and Poisson's ratios at failure. Test results were then fed into the Plaxis-FEM program to find the maximum total settlements of individual layers and compared with the requirements. Only three C-PSL mixes having cement contents (c) of 20, 25, 30 % and water-to-cement (w/c) ratios of 0. 4 and 0. 5 met the strict settlement criteria. The study showed that the original (h = 2 m) thick U-PSL can be replaced with 0. 3h-m thick C-PSL at w/c = 0. 5 (i. e. h = 0. 6 m). Likewise, the original (h = 2 m) thick U-PSL can be replaced with 0. 2h-m thick C-PSL at w/c = 0. 4 (i. e. h = 0. 4 m). Also, the extra effort of doing in situ soil compaction and testing in layers is reduced or eliminated. This would give not only alternative ways to HSTR embankment designers/constructors, but also substantial savings in construction time and costs.
URI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-012-0302-6
http://hdl.handle.net/11147/5612
ISSN: 1319-8025
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