Static Response and Structural Optimization of Railway Sleepers by Replacing Fine Aggregate with Waste Materials

Priyanka.K ¹ , Lavanya.G ²

1. Department of civil engineering, Anna University Regional Campus, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
2. Department of civil engineering, University College of Engineering, Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.7 , Issue.2 , pp.132-138, Apr-2020

Online published on Apr 30, 2020

Copyright © Priyanka.K, Lavanya.G . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
In current situation, Railways are most important and dependable transport for goods transportation. There are different structural components for load transport mechanism in railway system. In this mechanism sleeper plays an important role for load transportation. In past years wooden sleepers are used and then wooden sleepers replaced by alternative concrete sleeper to void deformation. This present study aims to replacing the concrete materials with suitable waste materials which are locally available. Those waste materials are partially replaced with fine aggregate. Cubes, cylinders were tested and corresponding mix proportion used as optimum percentage. While it give higher strength than nominal mix. Then the nominal mix and optimum mix properties are compared and applied to the ANSYS work bench. The ANSYS models were created for standard sleeper and Modified Y shaped sleepers. The deformational characters and stress characters were found by using ANSYS software analysis. The characters of optimum mix and various replaced mixes were compared and choose best mix ratio.

Key-Words / Index Term :
sleeper, ANSYS, y-shaped sleeper, modified sleeper, static analysis.

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