Mechanics of Ballasted Rail Tracks

Prof. Buddhima Indraratna is Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Wollongong, Wollongong City, Australia. He has been the team leader of a number of Railway Geotechnology research projects in Australia funded by the Australian Research Council and the Cooperative Research Centre for Railway Engineering in Australia. Dr. Wadud Salim is a Research Engineer at University of Wollongong. He has been working on railway geotechnology for the last 4-5 years. His special interest includes behaviour of railway ballast under cyclic loading. His research projects were sponsored by the Australian Research Council and Cooperative Research Centre for Railway Engineering, Australia. .

• 1. Introduction 2. Track Structure and Loading 3. Factors Governing Ballast Behaviour 4. State-of-the-Art Triaxial Testing of Ballast 5. Behaviour of Ballast with and without Geosynthetics 6. Existing Deformation Models 7. A New Constitutive Model for Ballast 8. Track Drainage and Use of Geosynthetics 9. Track Maintenance

"...The only book that deals with the degradation of ballast under both static and dynamic loads..." Robert L Smith (Australian Geomechanics, vol 40, December 2005)