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THURSDAY, APRIL, 19 Technical Sessions

6-3 7:45am - 9:45am 1-6 10:00am - 12:00pm
ROLLING STOCK SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS RAILROAD BALLAST RESEARCH (1)
Conference Level, Frick Conference Level, Conference Center A

Session Organizer: Dustin Clasby, Transportation Technology Center, Inc., Session Organizer: Marcus S. Dersch, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Pueblo, CO, United States Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States

Railroad Bearing Safety: Bearing Grease Degradation Related to Water Ballast Life and Effective Parameters
and Roller Bluing
Technical Publication. JRC2018-6264
Technical Publication. JRC2018-6136
Hamed F. Kashani, James P. Hyslip, HyGround/LORAM, Williamsburg, MA,
Dustin Clasby, Transportation Technology Center, Inc., Pueblo, CO, United United States
States, Monique Stewart, Federal Railroad Administration, Washington, D.C.,
United States

Full-scale Test and Simulation of Fittings Performance of a Current Crude Simulating Ballast Breakage under Repeated Loading using the Discrete
Oil Tank Car Element Method

Technical Publication. JRC2018-6191 Technical Publication. JRC2018-6117

Francisco Gonzalez III, USDOT, Federal Railroad Administration, Washington, Beema Dahal, S M Naziur Mahmud, Debakanta Mishra, Boise State
DC, United States, Robert Trent, Florentina Gantoi, Anand Prabhakaran, University, Boise, ID, United States
Sharma & Associates, Inc., Countryside, IL, United States

Vibration-Based Defect Detection for Freight Railcar Tapered-Roller Ballast Support Condition Affecting Crosstie Performance Investigated
Bearings through Discrete Element Method

Technical Publication. JRC2018-6210 Technical Publication. JRC2018-6258

Joseph Montalvo, Constantine Tarawneh, Arturo A. Fuentes, University of Wenting Hou, Bin Feng, Erol Tutumluer, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, United States Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Wei Li, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou,
Zhejiang, China

Novel Insights for Railroad Maintenance using Big Data Analytics Comparison of Under Ballast Mat Performance with Different Support
Technical Publication. JRC2018-6242 Conditions through Laboratory Experiment and Numerical Simulation
Naji Albakay, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States,
Hamid Sharif, Michael Hempel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, Technical Publication. JRC2018-6154
NE, United States
Yu Qian, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States, Kaijun
Effect of Different Tank Car Designs on TIH Transportation Risk Zhu, Saiful Bouquet Structural Engineers Inc., Pasadena, CA, United States,
Arthur De Oliveira Lima, Marcus S. Dersch, J. Riley Edwards, University of
Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States

Oral Presentation. JRC2018-6255 TRACK 2 RAIL EQUIPMENT ENGINEERING

Weixi Li, Geordie Roscoe, Chris Barkan, University of Illinois at Urbana- Track Organizer: Jeffrey Gordon, US DOT/Federal Railroad Administration,
Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States Cambridge, MA, United States

TRACK 1 RAILROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING Track Co-Organizer: Bryan Schlake, Penn State Altoona, Altoona, PA,
United States
Track Organizer: Conrad Ruppert, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL,
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