A coupled model for investigating the interfacial and fatigue damage evolution of slab tracks in vehicle-track interaction

• Published in: Applied Mathematical Modelling Vol. 101; pp. 772 - 790
• Main Authors: Xu, Lei, Liu, Hubing, Yu, Zhiwu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Elsevier Inc 01.01.2022; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Concrete fatigue damage; Concrete slabs; Constitutive models; Damage; Euler-Bernoulli beams; Evolution; Fatigue failure; Finite element method; Interaction models; Interfacial damage; Mathematical models; Railway slab track; System dynamics; Vehicle-track interaction; Finite element method; System dynamics; Railway slab track; Interfacial damage; Concrete fatigue damage; Vehicle-track interaction

•A computer program is compiled to achieve the combined fatigue and interfacial damage analysis of slab tracks.•The fatigue and interfacial damage evolution is assessed by considering cyclic effects of a moving vehicle.•Influence of the slab track fatigue on the interfacial damage evolution is revea...