Dead Load Per Pile Under Box Portion

Super Imposed Dead Load From Sleeper

Number of sleeper in broad gauge track (N+7) =
Number of sleeper over the box portion =
Length over which sleeper will be distributed =
Weight Calculation of Concrete Sleeper
Section of Sleeper

20
30
19.4 m

(Book: Railway Track Engineering by J.S. Mundrey, p-108)

2750mm

154mm
154mm
210mm
180mm

250mm
Weight of each sleeper =
UDL due to sleeper =

220mm
2.748975 kN
4.250992 kN/m

Weight Calculation of Ballast

2750 mm

6850 mm
Unit weight of ballast =
UDL due to ballast =

1650 kg/m
23.29906 kN/m

(width of top slab measured from CA

UDL due to rail track =

Total Super Imposed Dead load =

60 kg/m =

0.58836 kN/m

28.13841 kN/m

(N=13 for B.G. track)

(measured from CAD drawing)

drey, p-108)

p slab measured from CAD)

300 mm

Lateral Pressure Due to Earth and Super

Imposed Dead Load
Angle of repose of the soil, =
30 degree
Coefficient of earth pressure, Ka =
Lateral pressure due to earth =
6h
Lateral pressure due to SDL =
9.379469 kN/m
Total lateral pressure at "h" due to SDL and Earth=

(1-sin)/(1+sin)

9.379469 +

(1-sin)/(1+sin)

Live Load Calculation (Adapted from STAAD)

Axle load =
Train Load =

22.5 ton
80.9 kN/m

IRC standards followed

tandards followed

Lateral Pressure Due to Live Load

Assuming 1 meter strip =
34.79381 kN/m
Lateral Pressure due to live load =
11.59794 kN/m2

Total Lateral Pressure Due to (Live Load+SDL+Earth)

at h=0;
total lateral pressure =
at h =
6.75 m
total lateral pressure =

20.97741 kN/m
(measured from CAD)
61.47741 kN/m

20.97741 +

Thickness of each side wall =

Weight of each side wall =
Thickness of interior wall =
Weight of interior wall =
Thickness of top slab =
Weight of top slab =
Upward soil reaction at base =

600 mm
101.25 kN/m
400 mm
67.5 kN/m
600 mm
15 kN/m
67.19072 kN/m

Water pressure =

66.2175 kN/m