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Technical Sessions WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 18

WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 18 Performance-Based Specification for Concrete Railroad Tie
Freeze-Thaw Durability

TRACK 11 RAILROAD HISTORY Technical Publication. JRC2018-6167
Track Organizer: Michael L. Burshtin, Amtrak, Richland, NJ, United States
Yu Song, Arnesh Das, David Lange, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United
11-1 States, Hossein Mosavi, Kyle Riding, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL,
RAILROAD HISTORY (PLENARY SESSION) United States
Mezzanine Level, Bob and Dolores Hope
11:45am - 1:00pm 1-2
RAIL DEFECT ANALYSIS & MODELING
Session Organizer: Michael L. Burshtin, Amtrak, Richland, NJ, United States Conference Level, Conference Center B 1:15pm - 3:30pm
Railroad R&D over the 50 years and the Key Events Surrounding It
Session Organizer: Conrad Ruppert, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Technical Publication. JRC2018-6180 Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States

Alan Bing, Consultant, Kittery Point, ME, United States, Kevin Kesler, Federal Investigating the Rolling Contact Fatigue in Rails Using Finite Element
Railroad Administration, Washington, DC, United States Method and Cohesive Zone Approach

Technical Publication. JRC2018-6183

TRACK 1 RAILROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING Mohamad Ghodrati, Mehdi Ahmadian, Reza Mirzaeifar, Virginia Tech,
Track Organizer: Conrad Ruppert, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States Blacksburg, VA, United States, , Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States

1-1 1:15pm - 3:30pm Exploratory Data Analysis of Detail Fracture Defect Risk
CONCRETE CROSSTIE RESEARCH (1)
Conference Level, Conference Center A Oral Presentation. JRC2018-6150

Session Organizer: Tom Roadcap, University of Illinois at Urbana- Kang Zhou, Xiang Liu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,
Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States Piscataway, NJ, United States

Material Characteristics Evaluation of Existing Pre-stressed Concrete Analytical Modeling of Rail Detail Fracture Defect Risk
Railroad Ties after Service Period
Oral Presentation. JRC2018-6149
Technical Publication. JRC2018-6177
Kang Zhou, Xiang Liu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,
Aref Shafiei Dastgerdi, Robert Peterman, B.Terry Beck, Kansas State Piscataway, NJ, United States
University, Manhattan, KS, United States, Kyle Riding, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL, United States

Performance Assessment of HSRM Concrete Ties Through Finite Element TRACK 3 SIGNAL AND TRAIN CONTROL ENGINEERING
Model Simulations
Track Organizer: David Thurston, Canadian Pacific Railway,
Technical Publication. JRC2018-6219 Calgary, AB, Canada

Adam Zeitouni, Dimitris Rizos, Yu Qian, University of South Carolina, 3-1
Columbia, SC, United States
SUBJECTS ON COMMUNICATIONS BASED TRAIN CONTROL
Analytical Model of the Effects of Support Redistribution in Crosstie
Flexural Bending Moments Conference Level, Conference Center C 1:15pm - 3:30pm

Session Organizer: John Hofbauer, Parsons, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Oral Presentation. JRC2018-6220 Interoperability for Communications Based Train Control

14 Ricardo J. Quiros-Orozco, J. Riley Edwards, Marcus S. Dersch, University Technical Publication. JRC2018-6114

of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States