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Analysis of Behaviour of Steel Sleepers on a Railway Bridge with Member Deck Cover

Analysis of Behaviour of Steel Sleepers on a Railway Bridge with Member Deck

Open Access
|Mar 2026

Figures & Tables

Figure 1:

View of the bridge

Figure 2:

Cross section of the bridge

Figure 3:

Installation of steel sleepers on the stringers

Figure 4:

Test load assembly for static load test (distances are given in [m], axle forces in [kN])

Figure 5:

Sensor placement during static load test

Figure 6:

Measured normal stresses in the flanges of the observed stringer and sleeper BS5

Figure 7:

Courses of dynamic load factors evaluated from the measured normal stresses on the stringer and the sleeper BS5 as well as their standard values according to STN EN 1991-2

Figure 8:

Spatial computational model of the bridge superstructure for global analysis

Figure 9:

Detailed view of a part of the bridge modelled with shell elements

Figure 10:

Detailed view of the model of the steel sleeper's connection to the stringer

Figure 11:

Numerically determined normal stresses at midspan of the stringer

Figure 12:

Numerically determined normal stresses at midspan of the bridge sleeper BS5

Figure 13:

Comparison of the time courses of the stress response of the observed stringer and bridge sleeper to dynamic loading by the HDV 740 locomotive (ex) with the response simulated by theoretic numerical analysis (th)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cee-2026-0040 | Journal eISSN: 2199-6512 | Journal ISSN: 1336-5835
Language: English
Page range: 372 - 386
Submitted on: Aug 25, 2025
Accepted on: Sep 22, 2025
Published on: Mar 24, 2026
Published by: University of Žilina
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2026 Jozef Gocál, Josef Vičan, Jaroslav Odrobiňák, Richard Hlinka, František Bahleda, published by University of Žilina
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.