Transition Zones for Railway Bridges : A Study of the Sikån Bridge

• Main Author: Fara, Andrea
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Technology; Transition Zone; Transition Slab; Railway Bridge; Jump Bump; LCC; Teknik; Sikån; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-46147

A transition zone, that is a zone where a railway track leaves its embankment and enters a bridge, is an area of main concern to railway infrastructure managers. An abrupt change in track support stiffness can occur and it is often associated with accelerated rates of degradation of the track and it...