The necessity of using rail elastic pads
Rail elastic pads are essential for absorbing shock, reducing vibration and noise, preventing wear/damage to sleepers (especially concrete ones), distributing loads, and providing electrical insulation, thereby extending track life, improving ride comfort, ensuring stability, and reducing maintenance costs for railway systems.
Key Necessities:
- Vibration & Noise Reduction: Dampen impacts and vibrations from trains, making for a quieter ride and protecting nearby structures.
- Protects Infrastructure: Prevents cracking and abrasion of concrete sleepers and protects the rail foot from crushing by distributing dynamic loads evenly.
- Extends Track Life: Minimizes wear and tear from constant impact, reducing maintenance needs and extending the lifespan of the entire track system.
- Ensures Stability: Acts as a buffer, providing essential elasticity and stability to the track alignment.
- Electrical Insulation: Can provide electrical isolation for signaling systems.
How to select compatible rail pads?
Selecting compatible rail pads involves matching the pad's material, hardness, thickness, and design (grooves, horns) to your specific rail section, fastening system, and track conditions (speed, load, environment) to ensure proper fit, vibration damping, and sleeper protection. A good fit prevents wear and maintains toe load, while material choice dictates performance in high-speed (polyurethane), heavy-haul (fiber-reinforced/HDPE), or standard (rubber) applications.
- Identify Rail & Fastening: Know your rail section (e.g., UIC60) and fastener (e.g., SKL).
- Assess Track Needs: Determine speed, load, and environmental factors.
- Select Material: Choose between Rubber, PU, or HDPE based on performance needs (damping vs. stiffness).
- Specify Design: Select appropriate hardness, thickness, and features (grooves, anti-slip).
- Verify Fit: Ensure >90% contact area after installation to prevent premature failure.
Our EVA/HDPE/rubber rail pads are with high elasticity, applying to types for rails such as rail UIC54, UIC60, BS80lbs,BS100lbs, and sizes as ordered. The pads can be customized with or without grooves, in various possible designs, depending on customers' requirements.
| Raw Material | Rubber, EVA, TPEE, HDPE |
| Standard | UIC, AREMA, TB/T2626-95 |
| Application | 43kg/m, 50kg/m, 60kg/m, 75kg/m,115RE, UIC54, UIC60, S49 |
| Model number | 43-7-7, 43-10-7, 50-7-9, 50-10-9, 60-10-17, 60-12-17 |
| Operating temperature | -50~70 degrees |
| Certificate | MSDS, ROHS, REACH |
| Notes | They should be stored in a clean, ventilated place. Don't be in direct sunlight, and keep away from the heat source and chemical reagent. Don't touch the oil, organic solvent, and other chemicals. Banned exposure. |
As a professional rail fastener manufacturer, GNEE RAIL can produce various types of rubber rail pads with different materials, such as natural rubber, EVA, HDPE and so on. In railway fastening system, rubber rail pads are often installed between the rail tracks and the concrete railway sleepers.