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  1. Smartphone’s Sensing Capabilities for On-Board Railway Track Monitoring: Structural Performance and Geometrical Degradation Assessment

    Article • Advances in Civil Engineering, February 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Eduardo Fortunato, Dr Andre Paixao, Rui Calçada

  2. Photogrammetry for digital reconstruction of railway ballast particles – A cost-efficient method

    Article • Construction and Building Materials, December 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Eduardo Fortunato, Dr Andre Paixao

  3. Short soil–binder columns in railway track reinforcement: three–dimensional numerical studies considering the train–track interaction

    Article • Computers and Geotechnics, June 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Eduardo Fortunato, Dr Andre Paixao

  4. Numerical simulations to improve the use of under sleeper pads at transition zones to railway bridges

    Article • Engineering Structures, June 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  5. Railway Track Condition Assessment at Network Level by Frequency Domain Analysis of GPR Data

    Article • Remote Sensing, April 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Andre Paixao

  6. Ballast fouling evaluation with ground penetrating radar

    Article • MATEC Web of Conferences, January 2018, EDP Sciences

    Dr Andre Paixao

  7. A study on the dynamic train-track interaction over cut-fill transitions on buried culverts

    Article • Computers & Structures, September 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Eduardo Fortunato, Dr Andre Paixao

  8. Some results on the properties and behavior of railway ballast

    Article • June 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eduardo Fortunato, Dr Andre Paixao

  9. A contribution for integrated analysis of railway track performance at transition zones and other discontinuities

    Article • Construction and Building Materials, May 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  10. A Numerical Study on the Stress Changes in the Ballast Due to Train Passages

    Article • Procedia Engineering, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  11. Non-Linear Behaviour of Geomaterials in Railway Tracks under Different Loading Conditions

    Article • Procedia Engineering, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  12. The effect of differential settlements on the dynamic response of the train–track system

    Article • Engineering Structures, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  13. A numerical study on the influence of backfill settlements in the train/track interaction at transition zones to railway bridges

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, March 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  14. Transition zones to railway bridges: Track measurements and numerical modelling

    Article • Engineering Structures, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  15. Under sleeper pads in transition zones at railway underpasses

    Article • Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato, Rui Calçada

  16. Rehabilitation of a freight railway line - Geotechnical aspects of the track

    Article • Geotecnia, July 2014, Portuguese Geotechnical Society

    Dr Andre Paixao

  17. On the use of under sleeper pads in transition zones at railway underpasses: experimental field testing

    Article • Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  18. Numerical Modelling of Railway Bridge Approaches: Influence of Soil Non-Linearity

    Article • International Journal of Railway Technology, January 2014, Civil-Comp, Ltd.

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  19. Design and construction of backfills for railway track transition zones

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, August 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  20. Railway Track Transition Zones: Design, Construction, Monitoring and Numerical Modelling

    Article • International Journal of Railway Technology, January 2013, Civil-Comp, Ltd.

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  21. Improving the use of unbound granular materials in railway sub-ballast layer

    Article • September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  22. Emerging trends for high-speed rail track superstructures—ballastless track as an alternative to the ballasted track

    Article • June 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  23. Rail track structural analysis using three-dimensional numerical models

    Article • June 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  24. Non-linear Elastic Behaviour of Unbound Aggregates in FEM representing Railway Transition Zones

    Article • Civil-Comp, Ltd.

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  25. Non Destructive Tests for Evaluation of Railway Platforms: Application of Ground Penetrating Radar

    Article • Civil-Comp, Ltd.

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato

  26. The Falling Weight Deflectometer: Application to Railway Substructure Evaluation

    Article • Civil-Comp, Ltd.

    Dr Andre Paixao, Professor Eduardo Fortunato