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First published 2017-4

Drive-by detection of railway track stiffness variation using in-service vehicles

Paraic Quirke, Daniel Cantero, Eugene J OBrien [...]

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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First published 2026

Railway track stiffness estimation from instrumented vehicle data using frequency features and machine learning

Naveen Narayanan, Suraj P Harsha

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics

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First published 2022-4

Variation of Track Response to Wheel Forces with Bogie Axle Spacing: Apparent Track Stiffness and its Influence on Dynamic Impact Forces on Railway Tracks

Erdem Balcı, Niyazi Özgür Bezgin, Mohamed Wehbi

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

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First published 2020-1

Degradation of railway track geometry – Correlation between track stiffness gradient and differential settlement

Jens CO Nielsen, Eric G Berggren, Anders Hammar [...]

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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First published 2025-11

Evaluation of the effect of rail pad stiffness and wheel polygonization on the dynamic behavior of corrugated railway tracks

Pablo Restrepo-Barrientos, Jesús Arturo Torres Garay, Juan José Arbeláez-Toro [...]

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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First published 2026

An investigation into the effect of frequency- and amplitude-dependent stiffness of railpads on the vehicle-track dynamics of high-speed railways

Anyang Wang, Xia Li, Hu Tang

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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First published 2013-1

Mechanical characterization of railway structures based on vertical stiffness analysis and railway substructure stress state

Laura Montalbán, Julia Real, Teresa Real

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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First published 2016-9

A mixed slab-ballasted track as a means to improve the behaviour of railway infrastructure

Inmaculada Gallego, Santos Sánchez-Cambronero, Ana Rivas [...]

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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First published 2020-5

A model for the stochastic prediction of track support stiffness

Louis Le Pen, David Milne, Geoff Watson [...]

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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First published 2016-5

The stiffness of unsaturated railway formations

Louise Otter, Christopher Robert I Clayton, Jeffrey A Priest [...]

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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