New ultra-long transnational railway megaprojects are currently being planned or under construction. Along their route, they increasingly cross arid and desert regions. In these regions, railways are vulnerable to windblown sand. Several failure cases recently occurred, e.g. along the Linhai-Ceke railway in China, or the Aus-Lüderitz railway in Namibia. We consider windblown sand as an environmental key factor, analogously to wind or snow drift. We categorize its effects into Sand Ultimate Limit States and Sand Serviceability Limit States. In the design perspective, the quantitative prediction of the windblown sand sedimented along the railway is mandatory. We propose a probabilistic approach to sedimented windblown sand modelling because of the inborn variability of the phenomenon. The proposed method allows evaluating the design value of the accumulated windblown sand volume for a given site.


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    Titel :

    Probabilistic Assessment of Windblown Sand Accumulation Around Railways


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering


    Beteiligte:
    Ricciardelli, Francesco (Herausgeber:in) / Avossa, Alberto Maria (Herausgeber:in) / Raffaele, L. (Autor:in) / Bruno, L. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering ; 2018 ; Naples, Italy September 09, 2018 - September 12, 2018



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    13.03.2019


    Format / Umfang :

    11 pages





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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