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Since the 1940s, continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) is a technology used in the United States of America (USA) for road traffic. Starting in 1972, the CRCP construction premises were applied to railway lines in Germany. Use of PCCA as a railway platform is relatively recent and there are no specific standards for its scaling and analysis, there are no specific standards for its design and analysis. Given this, the structural behavior of the PCCA road is adopted for the rigid railways. The central objective of this work is to understand the structural behavior of a conventional CRCP used as a railway platform. For this, numerical simulations were performed with Abaqus/CAE software to develop a conventional CRCP model calibrated with field test results. Later, simulations with fixations, rails and three different vehicles loads were conducted in the model initially proposed. The CRCP simulations as railway platform consisted of evaluating whether the positioning of the rail load in relation to the CRCP transverse cracks influenced the structural behavior of the pavement. A parametric study was also performed on the permanent track elements and on the concrete fatigue life. As a result, the pavement lifespan observed under these vehicles loads is within that expected for rigid railway platforms, for the three fatigue models used. However, in the case of the cargo vehicle, the fatigue models showed a design life inferior that expected for rigid railway platforms; therefore, the pavement would not be appropriate for the loading of cargo vehicles. The parametric study showed that the stiffness of the fixings is the element that most influences track deflection, tensile stress at the bottom of the slabs and tensile stress in the rails. The improvement of the foundation decreases the tensile stress in the pavement without changing the deflection in the permanent way.

Estudo de esforços em pavimentos de concreto continuamente armados como plataformas ferroviárias.