The Railway Technical Society of Australasia

Mr. Brendon Gill

Thesis: Developing the Single Sleeper Push Test Device used to determine Track Lateral Resistance

Place of study: Griffith University (Queensland) and in association with Queensland Rail.

The thesis makes determinations regarding the lateral resistance of a variety of railway sleepers in a range of ballast conditions. The results of the tests are used to understand better, and predict, the behaviour of sleepers under lateral loading.