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TC202 Workshop on Railroad Geotechnics
at XVI ECSMGE, Edinburgh, 2015
Sunday, September 13, 2015, 13:30-17:30
Venue: Tinto Room, Edinburgh International Conference Center (EICC)

Technical Committee TC202 (Transportation Geotechnics) of ISSMGE organized a Workshop on Railroad Geotechnics to be held by inviting almost twenty members of TC202 and affiliates at the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in September 2015.

PROGRAM:

13:30 - 13:40
Opening Address
Prof. Erol Tutumluer, Chair of ISSMGE TC202

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13:40 - 14:00
Some unsaturated soil-related aspects in railway sub-structures
Prof. Yu-Jun Cui, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)
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14:00 - 14:20
Prediction of Earthworks Failure using Track Geometry Car Data
Dr. Phil Sharpe, AECOM
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14:20 - 14:40
Investigation of Ballast Flight under Aerodynamics Flow using Computational Fluid Dynamics
Dr. Lee Pardoe, University of Southampton
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14:40 - 15:00
Recent solutions to improve the degraded ballasted tracks
Dr. Yoshitsugu Momoya, RTRI
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15:00 - 15:20
Lateral Resistance Characteristics of Ballasted Tracks subjected to Angular Rotation at Boundaries between Structures
Prof. Kimitoshi Hayano, Yokohama National University
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15:20 - 15:35
Questions and Answers / Discussion

15:35 - 15:55
Coffee Break



15:55 - 16:15
Water Impact on Dynamic Performance and Accumulative Settlement of High-Speed Railway Infrastructure under Train Moving Loads
Prof. Xuecheng Bian, Zhejiang University
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16:15 - 16:35
Soft Computing Applied to Earthworks Optimization: A Survey and Application
Prof. Antonio Gomes Correia, University of Minho
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16:35 - 16:55
Synergistic effects of moving wheel loads and water content change on mechanical behavior of substructures at ballasted track
Prof. Tatsuya Ishikawa, Hokkaido University
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16:55 - 17:15
Effectiveness of Remedial Measures Applied to Mitigate Differential Movement at Railroad Track Transitions
Prof. Erol Tutumluer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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17:15 - 17:30
Questions and Answers / Discussion






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