Application status and developing foreground of CRTS Ⅲ ballastless track

Author(s):  
Bai Jing-Yuan ◽  
Bin Yan

<p>The technology of high-speed railway is one of the central driving forces in national economic growth. To increase the speed of high-speed trains and ensure their safety, the research and development of brand-new ballastless track techniques are of vital significance. This article simply talked about China's domestically designed CRTS III ballastless track. This technique is famous for some technical characteristics: it replaced CA mortar with self-compacting concrete as adjustment layer, which not only simplified the structure but also reduced the cost; 2-D scalable steel mould was adopted to materialize the track slab with high precision shoulder post-tensioned prestressed spatial curved space, which simplified the construction craft a lot; it adopted flexible longitudinal coupled structure of the subgrade as bridge-tunnel unit structure, which weakened the influence of temperature stress; unit-separated structure and flexible-separated structure were widely used, which made the maintainability of all unit structure. This article was based on the analysis of these technical characteristics and discussed the application status and developing foreground of this technique in some way.</p>

2017 ◽  
Vol 1142 ◽  
pp. 334-339
Author(s):  
Heng Qiong Jia ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Zhao Wei

For construction method of infusion bag, expansion of CRTSⅠCA mortar on site by core drilling, water absorption, chloride ion permeability and frost resistance and other properties were studied in comparison with performance of mortar in laboratory under standard curing. The results showed that expansion of the mortar on site was 2%, water absorption was 0.5%, charge amount was 210C, quality loss after 300 freeze-thaw cycles was -1.1%, the performance was much better than molded mortar in laboratory. Pore structure analysis showed that the internal pore diameter of the mortar on site was about 150μm, pore content was 9% to 12%; the internal pore diameter of the mortar in laboratory was also about 150μm, pore content was 10% to 15%. China railway track system(CRTSⅠ)slab ballastless track is one of the main structure forms of the modern high-speed railway and mainly composed of concrete basement, the Cement-emulsified Asphalt Mortar layer and concrete slab, featured by its rapid construction, convenient maintenance, and so on, has been widely applied in high-speed railway construction in our country. The cement-emulsified asphalt(CA) Mortar is one of the key materials and structures in slab ballastless track, providing the appropriate stiffness and elasticity which is usually composed of cement, emulsified asphalt, grit, water and many types of additives, containing a variety of inorganic/organic compositions and many types of surfactants, through the special bag, filling inside the flat cavity by its own weight between track slab and concrete basement with a thickness of 50mm (length×width 4962 mm×2400 mm). The construction method of CA mortar is grouting the non-woven fabrics bag after setting the bag under the track slab fixed by fine adjustment claw, which is convenient and has no requirement of mould removal. The bag is fixed before the perfusion process and does not produce wrinkles. The method greatly enhances the construction efficiency and has been widely utilized in high-speed railway. To full perfusion and tightness with track board, CA mortar contains gas former and expands after the end of infusion in a restricted state. Non-woven fabrics bag itself with breathable permeable, a small amount of water seeps around infusion bags in a period of time after the end of the infusion. Theoretically free water seepage of mortar on the one hand increases the compactness and durability of the mortar, but on the other hand will reduce the mortar expansion; the quality of filling layer mortar can meet the acceptance requirements in the engineering practice. In the same raw materials and mortar mixing, the performance of fresh mortar can require CRTSⅠ type of slab track emulsified asphalt cement mortar in high-speed railway Q / CR 469-2015. After water seepage performance of hardening mortar on site is different from laboratory mortar, because the surface of laboratory mortar is without compression and free deformation. In this paper, contrast mortar on site and molded mortar in laboratory, the performance of hardened mortar on site were studied.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 2876
Author(s):  
Yingying Zhang ◽  
Lingyu Zhou ◽  
Akim D. Mahunon ◽  
Guangchao Zhang ◽  
Xiusheng Peng ◽  
...  

The mechanical performance of China Railway Track System type II (CRTS II) ballastless track suitable for High-Speed Railway (HSR) bridges is investigated in this project by testing a one-quarter-scaled three-span specimen under thermal loading. Stress analysis was performed both experimentally and numerically, via finite-element modeling in the latter case. The results showed that strains in the track slab, in the cement-emulsified asphalt (CA) mortar and in the track bed, increased nonlinearly with the temperature increase. In the longitudinal direction, the zero-displacement section between the track slab and the track bed was close to the 1/8L section of the beam, while the zero-displacement section between the track slab and the box girder bridge was close to the 3/8L section. The maximum values of the relative vertical displacement between the track bed and the bridge structure occurred in the section at three-quarters of the span. Numerical analysis showed that the lower the temperature, the larger the tensile stresses occurring in the different layers of the track structure, whereas the higher the temperature, the higher the relative displacement between the track system and the box girder bridge. Consequently, quantifying the stresses in the various components of the track structure resulting from sudden temperature drops and evaluating the relative displacements between the rails and the track bed resulting from high-temperature are helpful in the design of ballastless track structures for high-speed railway lines.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 4756
Author(s):  
Gaoran Guo ◽  
Xuhao Cui ◽  
Bowen Du

High-speed railways (HSRs) are established all over the world owing to their advantages of high speed, ride comfort, and low vibration and noise. A ballastless track slab is a crucial part of the HSR, and its working condition directly affects the safe operation of the train. With increasing train operation time, track slabs suffer from various defects such as track slab warping and arching as well as interlayer disengagement defect. These defects will eventually lead to the deformation of track slabs and thus jeopardize safe train operation. Therefore, it is important to monitor the condition of ballastless track slabs and identify their defects. This paper proposes a method for monitoring track slab deformation using fiber optic sensing technology and an intelligent method for identifying track slab deformation using the random-forest model. The results show that track-side monitoring can effectively capture the vibration signals caused by train vibration, track slab deformation, noise, and environmental vibration. The proposed intelligent algorithm can identify track slab deformation effectively, and the recognition rate can reach 96.09%. This paper provides new methods for track slab deformation monitoring and intelligent identification.


Author(s):  
Chunfa Zhao ◽  
Xiaolin Song ◽  
Xiaojia Zhu

Two finite element models of CRTS II ballastless track superstructure were developed to simulate temperature deformations of the precast concrete track slab. One of the models considered the fully bonding interface between the track slab and the cement asphalt mortar layers, while the other uses cohesive zone elements to simulate possible interfacial separation and slip. Warp deformations of the track slab under various temperature loads were calculated using both models. Numerical results show that the track slab glued fully to the mortar layers can approximately hold regular geometry shape even if it bears extreme temperature gradient loads. Although deteriorated mortar layers could increase significantly temperature deformations of the track slab, warp deformations of the track slab are still quite small and the rail harmonic irregularities due to the temperature deformations are tiny. It can be concluded that temperature deformations of CRTS II track slab have little effect on running safety and ride comfort of high-speed trains.


2013 ◽  
Vol 443 ◽  
pp. 69-73
Author(s):  
Xiang Min Li ◽  
Suo Yan Zhang ◽  
Jun Liu

At present ballastless track has been widely applied to railway line for passenger in our country, therefore it has broad prospect. Cracks in ballastless track slabs are inevitable in the construction and operation of high-speed railway. Based on comprehensive investigation of documents, and taking cracks in ballastless track slabs as the main object, systematic and deep research has been done within this paper. The main research contents are as follows: First of all, the structure characteristics of CRTSIII ballastless track in high-speed railway are briefly introduced; Secondly, the paper mostly introduces the impacts what cracks make, the characteristics of cracks and how they form. Subsequently the paper introduces what are made to prevent cracks.


2012 ◽  
Vol 531-532 ◽  
pp. 163-167
Author(s):  
Jun Fu ◽  
Yu Qin ◽  
You Yun Yu ◽  
Meng Jun Ye ◽  
Lian Xin Li

As an important cushion layer, CA mortar ballastless track is crucial to the durability, safety of high-speed railway and the high-speed railway is influenced by the external environment. The regulation of temperature field evolvement of ballastless track is analyzed in this paper through a two-dimensional, transient finite element model built by ANSYS. The results show that the temperature of structure section caused by solar radiation and circumstances temperature is decreasing along depth in sunlight, and the internal temperature of structure is higher than the surface temperature at night. The integral temperature field of structure reaches the maximum at 1:00 p.m. and the vertical difference of the temperature inside the structure is also the largest, causing the most obvious temperature stress, which provides theoretical data for systematic research on ballastless track of high-speed railway.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1418
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Ciani ◽  
Giulia Guidi ◽  
Gabriele Patrizi ◽  
Diego Galar

Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is a well-established method for preventive maintenance planning. This paper focuses on the optimization of a maintenance plan for an HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) system located on high-speed trains. The first steps of the RCM procedure help in identifying the most critical items of the system in terms of safety and availability by means of a failure modes and effects analysis. Then, RMC proposes the optimal maintenance tasks for each item making up the system. However, the decision-making diagram that leads to the maintenance choice is extremely generic, with a consequent high subjectivity in the task selection. This paper proposes a new fuzzy-based decision-making diagram to minimize the subjectivity of the task choice and preserve the cost-efficiency of the procedure. It uses a case from the railway industry to illustrate the suggested approach, but the procedure could be easily applied to different industrial and technological fields. The results of the proposed fuzzy approach highlight the importance of an accurate diagnostics (with an overall 86% of the task as diagnostic-based maintenance) and condition monitoring strategy (covering 54% of the tasks) to optimize the maintenance plan and to minimize the system availability. The findings show that the framework strongly mitigates the issues related to the classical RCM procedure, notably the high subjectivity of experts. It lays the groundwork for a general fuzzy-based reliability-centered maintenance method.


2013 ◽  
Vol 671-674 ◽  
pp. 1263-1266
Author(s):  
Hu Chen ◽  
Kun Lin ◽  
Sheng Bo Fan ◽  
Jian Chen

Dynamic response tests were developed on CRTS Ⅱslab ballastless track subgrade of Beijing-Tianjin intercity high-speed railway.The relationship between vibration response and the speed, the vertical and horizontal distribution law of vibration response along lines, the effect of axle load on vibration response were researched.Test results are as follows: The vibration displacement of the extreme value caused by a single axle load is not obvious;Train axle load significantly affects the vibration response;Despite the vertical connection between two track slab, but the end of track slab vibration response is still significantly greater than the middle and the vertical multi-storey line structure vibration response decreases rapidly along the depth;Speed has no significant effect on the vibration displacement, but vibration acceleration and vibration velocity is sensitive to speed.


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