E5 - Sustainable Design and Maintenance of Railway Track Infrastructure

Moderator(s)

• TD

  Tyler Dick, PhD, PE

  Assistant Professor
  University of Texas at Austin
  Austin, TX, United States

Presentations:

• 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM MT

  Evaluation of Ballast Degradation Using Computer Vision and Comparison with Ground Penetrating Radar
  

  Primary Author: Youngdae Kim – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Co-Author: Kelin Ding, MS – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Co-Author: Yongsung Koh, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Co-Author: Taeyun Kong, MSc – University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

  Co-Author: Erol Tutumluer, Ph.D. – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Presenter: Erol Tutumluer, Ph.D. – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Co-Author: Jeremy J. Beasley, n/a – U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

  Co-Author: Abby Cisko, Ph.D. – U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

  Co-Author: Michael J. Harrell, P.E. – Applied Research Associates, Inc.
• 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM MT

  Track Structural Capacity Rating 2.0
  

  Primary Author: Marcus Dersch, Ph.D., P.E. – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Presenter: Coleman Froehlke
• 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM MT

  Reduction in Railway Maintenance Costs Through the Addition of Ductile Elements Within the Track.
  

  Primary Author: bruce bush, MS Geotechnical Engineering – Geopier, a division of CMC