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Wood rail sleeper indroduction
Wood sleeper is the most widely used rail sleeper for now. In general, wood with high tenacity and good elasticity is the best material chosen to produce wood sleepers. Using wood as the material, rail sleeper has many features like excellent insulating property, good flexibility, light weight, simple processing, easy replacement and little temperature influence. Especially the treated railway sleeper, its lifespan can prolong to 15 years. For this reason, wood sleepers are widely used throughout the world.
According to different applications, wood sleepers can be divided into three types: ordinary wooden sleeper, turnout sleeper and bridge sleeper. The length and purpose of each is not the same. Having so many advantages, wood sleeper is the main type of rail sleepers. For wood as the material, there are still many factors that limit the development of wood sleeper: the elasticity, intensity and durability of wood sleepers are uneven, which raises the power of turbine. What's more, producing wood sleepers need a lot of high quality wood resource and the cost is very high. After a long time use, wood sleepers easily become corrupted cracking and abraded. It is certain that these reasons would short the lifespan of wood sleepers. So that preservative treatment is necessary to prolong the lifespan of rail sleepers before using.
Advantages of wood rail sleepers
1. Good dampening property: absorbs vibrations
2. Lower producing cost
3. Easy to handle (Moderate weight and not easily susceptible to damage)
4. Gauge adjustment is easier
5. Good track circuiting (electric insulation) quality
Disadvantages
1. Short lifespan (12-15years)
2. Difficult to maintain gauge (hole widening problem)
3. High maintenance cost (Fire hazard and pest attack)
4. Higher probability of theft due to high opportunity cost
5. Negligible scrap value
6. Light weight makes it unsuitable for fast track
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