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Record W4293764631 · doi:10.1061/9780784484371.003

Review of TCRP Rail Break Gap Formulas

2022· article· en· W4293764631 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Conference on Transportation and Development 2022 · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicRailway Engineering and Dynamics
Canadian institutionsSNC-Lavalin (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFastenerTrack (disk drive)Structural engineeringEngineeringMechanical engineering

Abstract

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Assessment of a rail break gap is important to ensure safety of rail traffic. An axial rail model available in current textbook yields a single formula in terms of breathing length to compute a rail break gap in a continuously welded rail (CWR) track. Transit Co-operative Research Program (TCRP) suggests three formulas to compute a rail break gap in a CWR track. The longitudinal resistance of a track or rail is a significant input to compute a breathing length which in turn determines a rail break gap. TCRP does not recommend value of longitudinal resistance of a track or rail but implicitly suggests dividing fastener restraint force by fastener spacing to determine longitudinal resistance value in the derivation process of its first and third formula. The theoretical and practical deficiencies of first and third formula are discussed. TCRP second formula, simplified version of the first one, appears to be acceptable provided the longitudinal resistance of a track or rail is not computed by dividing fastener restraint force by fastener spacing. The value of longitudinal resistance obtained by dividing fastener restraint force by fastener spacing is underestimated for a direct fixation track leading to a large rail break gap and is not appropriate for a ballasted track as well; an explanation for underestimation and inappropriateness is given. The track professionals would be benefitted by the clarity given in the paper. A call is made for review of TCRP formulas.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.699
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.244
Teacher spread0.220 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it