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Technical Sessions THURSDAY, APRIL 14

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BALLAST 1 CRASHWORTHINESS & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Carolina D 8:00am - 9:45am Carolina E 8:00am - 9:45am

Fouled Ballast Definitions and Parameters
Session Organizer: Bryan Schlake, Penn State Altoona, Altoona, PA,
Technical Publication. JRC2016-5725 United States
Radim Bruzek, ENSCO Inc, Springfield, VA, United States, Timothy Stark, The Past, Present and Future of High Speed Trains in the U.S.A.
Stephen Wilk, University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL,
United States, Hugh B. Thompson II, Federal Railroad Administration, Technical Publication. JRC2016-5727
Washington, DC, United States, Theodore R. Sussmann, Jr., US DOT/
Brian T. Scales, Independent Consultant, Moon Township, PA, United
Volpe Center, Cambridge, MA, United States
States

Evaluating Fouled Ballast Using Seismic Surface Waves
Liquefied Natural Gas Tender Crashworthiness in Train-to-Train
Technical Publication. JRC2016-5714 Collisions

Timothy Stark, Stephen Wilk, University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, Technical Publication. JRC2016-5752
Urbana, IL, United States, Theodore R. Sussmann, Jr., US DOT/Volpe
David Tyrell, US DOT/Volpe Center, Cambridge, MA, United States
Center, Cambridge, MA, United States, Hugh B. Thompson II, Federal
Railroad Administration, Washington, DC, United States, Mark Baker,
Geomedia Research and Development, El Paso, TX, United States,
Carlton L. Ho, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States Conventional Locomotive Coupling Tests: Test Requirements and
Pre-Test Analysis
Technical Publication. JRC2016-5817
Moisture Effects on Degraded Ballast Shear Strength Behavior
Patricia Llana, David Tyrell, US DOT/Volpe Center, Cambridge, MA,
Technical Publication. JRC2016-5840 United States, Przemyslaw Rakoczy, TTCI, Pueblo, CO, United States

Yu Qian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United
States, Debakanta Mishra, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States,
Erol Tutumluer, Youssef M.A. Hashash, Jamshid Ghaboussi, University On the Application of Laser Technology for Railroad Top of the Rail
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States Lubricity Detection

Student Technical Publication. JRC2016-5820
Laboratory Evaluation of Fouled Ballast under Heavy-Axle Load and Abdullah M. Hasan, Masood Taheri Andani, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg,
High Traffic Conditions VA, United States, Mehdi Ahmadian, VA Poly Inst & State Univ, Blacks-
burg, VA, United States
Student Technical Publication. JRC2016-5733
Hamed Faghihi Kashani, Carlton L. Ho, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA, United States, James Hyslip, HyGround Engineering, TRACK 6 SAFETY AND SECURITY
Williamsburg, MA, United States
Track Organizer: Dave Schlesinger, Parsons, Pomona, CA, United States

Track Co-Organizer: Rapik Saat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign, Rail Transportation and Engineering Center-RailTEC, Urbana, IL,
TRACK 2 RAIL EQUIPMENT ENGINEERING
United States
Track Organizer: Jeff Gordon, Federal Railroad Administration, Cambridge,
MA, United States

Track Co-Organizer: Bryan Schlake, Penn State Altoona, Altoona, PA,
United States
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