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In the first part, the paper deals with the origin and reasons to construct an unconventional type of the structure of railway superstructure, which is referred to as a slab track, it is shortly characterized by its development and the possible application of the railway tracks. The second part of the paper deals with the historical development of unconventional structure of railway superstructure in the Slovak Republic, characteristics of the developed and tested structures, and then in the third part of this paper, there are characterized specific structures of slab track applied in the ongoing modernization of the railway infrastructure in the Slovak Republic

Historical Development and Applications of Unconventional Structure of Railway Superstructure of the Railway Infrastructure of the Slovak Republic

Department of Railway Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Žilina, Slovak Republic

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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In the first part, the paper deals with the origin and reasons to construct an unconventional type of the structure of railway superstructure, which is...

Historical Development and Applications of Unconventional Structure of Railway Superstructure of the Railway Infrastructure of the Slovak Republic

Published Online: May 30, 2014

Page range: 79 - 94

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cee-2014-0010

Keywords
Applications of slab tracks, Historical development of slab track constructions, Railway track, Slab track, Track superstructure

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Historical Development and Applications of Unconventional Structure of Railway Superstructure of the Railway Infrastructure of the Slovak Republic

Published Online: May 30, 2014

Page range: 79 - 94

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cee-2014-0010

KeywordsApplications of slab tracks, Historical development of slab track constructions, Railway track, Slab track, Track superstructure

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords
Applications of slab tracks, Historical development of slab track constructions, Railway track, Slab track, Track superstructure