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Discrete Element Modeling of Railroad Ballast Behavior

An innovative integrated computational-experimental laboratory testing framework has been developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to evaluate clean and fouled ballast behavior. The railroad ballast layer consists of discrete aggregate particles and it is a critical substructure...