Thermally activated foundation elements have been successfully used in Austria for decades to harness near-surface geothermal energy for heating and cooling purposes. After a large number of projects...[more]

The RDVK-Vibrocontrol research project is being carried out within the framework of the Bridge 1 research funding programme of the Austrian FFG, by the project partners TU Wien, Institute of...[more]

The ballast of a railway track needs to bear heavy horizontal and vertical loads. Therefore the ballast has to be very dense. If this is not the case – i.e. after tamping or when the railway track...[more]

The research project "CCC for vibrating rollers" (Vibro-F) is carried out in cooperation with the company HAMM AG and aims to develop a new measurement value for Continuous Compaction...[more]

With the continuous increase in passenger and freight rail traffic, ballast track maintenance is becoming an increasingly demanding task, and nowadays much of the track maintenance work is carried...[more]