Damage tolerance of fractured rails on continuous welded rail track for high-speed railways

Broken gap is an extremely dangerous state in the service of high-speed rails, and the violent wheel–rail impact forces will be intensified when a vehicle passes the gap at high speeds, which may cause a secondary fracture to rail and threaten the running safety of the vehicle. To recognize the damage tolerance of rail fracture length, the implicit–explicit sequential approach is adopted to simulate the wheel–rail high-frequency impact, which considers the factors such as the coupling effect between frictional contact and structural vibration, nonlinear material and real geometric profile. The results demonstrate that the plastic deformation and stress are distributed in crescent shape during the impact at the back rail end, increasing with the rail fracture length. The axle box acceleration in the frequency domain displays two characteristic modes with frequencies around 1,637 and 404 Hz. The limit of the rail fracture length is 60 mm for high-speed railway at a speed of 250 km/h.

     

反复荷载下水泥乳化沥青砂浆力学性能试验

采用电子万能试验机对中国铁路轨道系统（CRTS）Ⅰ型板式无砟轨道水泥乳化沥青砂浆（CA砂浆）现场取样试件进行反复荷载试验,试验采用恒应变控制.结果表明：单调加载情况下CA砂浆的极限抗压强度较大,现场取样试件的极限抗压强度较室内试件大;反复荷载会造成CA砂浆损伤不断积累,从而使其承载能力达到极限承载强度后迅速下降.通过试验和参数研究,提出了CRTSⅠ型板式无砟轨道CA砂浆的反复荷载应力应变曲线方程,理论计算结果与试验结果吻合.