A new approach to the maintenance of wooden railway sleepers. (Second report)
IRG/WP 3492
W Beauford, P I Morris, A M Brown, D J Dickinson
The microenvironment and micro-ecology of wooden railway sleepers was investigated to assess their condition to determine the necessary treatment, repair and replacement criteria. In this report the efficacy of the secondary preservative treatment with solid boron rods is discussed and the development of an in-situ, nondestructive test method based on the creation and assessment of structural dynamic vibrations is described.