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3- Percussion Theory
Rail end ahead of joint gets battered. Impact of wagon wheel tends to push forward the rail
giving rise to creep.
When; wheel crosses over the joint, force acts normal to the contact surface.
It's horizontal component causes creep whereas vertical component causes battering of rail
end.
Lec. - Railway Engineering Assist. Lec. Zaid Abdul Zahra Mahdi
Sleepers
3- Transferring the load evenly from the rails to a wider area of the ballast
4- Acting as an elastic medium between the rails and the ballast to absorb the blows and vibrations
caused by moving loads
6- Providing the means to rectify the track geometry during their service life .
Types of Sleepers
1- Wooden sleepers
Advantages
Advantages
Disadvantages
(d) Not very suitable for mechanical maintenance and/or MSP because of rounded bottom
3- Concrete sleepers
Concrete sleepers