Investigation of a concrete railway sleeper failed by ice expansion
- Authors
- Zi, Goangseup; Moon, Do Young; Lee, Seung-Jung; Jang, Seung Yup; Yang, Sin Chu; Kim, Soo-Sam
- Issue Date
- 12월-2012
- Publisher
- PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
- Keywords
- Concrete railway sleeper; Fracture; Finite element model; Ice expansion; Slab track
- Citation
- ENGINEERING FAILURE ANALYSIS, v.26, pp.151 - 163
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- ENGINEERING FAILURE ANALYSIS
- Volume
- 26
- Start Page
- 151
- End Page
- 163
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/106780
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2012.07.023
- ISSN
- 1350-6307
- Abstract
- We investigated a conical crack formed near a fastening bolt of a concrete railway sleeper in a slab track system. The crack initiated from the bottom of the sleeper and penetrated the sleeper completely forming a conical shape. To study the reason for this and to examine the failure mechanism, we used a three dimensional finite element method and a series of experimental programs. The result of the numerical simulation was verified with the experimental data. From this study, we concluded that the conical crack was caused by the volume expansion of the freezing water leaking into the plastic insert of the fastener hole. The effect of location of the frozen insert holes, initial fastening force and compressive strength of concrete on the freezing force was also studied in this study. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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