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Understanding the Splitting and Bursting Failure of Concrete Crossties

Under the sponsorship of the Federal Railroad Administration, finite element (FE) analyses were conducted at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) between 2016 and 2017 to understand the contributing factors to the concrete tie splitting/bursting failure mode. This was...