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PRELIMINARY STUDIES INTO THE EFFECTS OF PRINCIPAL STRESS ROTATION ON RAILWAY SUBGRADE BEHAVIOUR Dr LA Yang, Prof CRI Clayton, Prof W Powrie Dr D Bowness School of Civil Engineering and the Environment University of Southampton, Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK liang@soton.ac.uk KEYWORDS: Railway subgrade, principal stress rotation, Hollow Cylinder Apparatus, FLAC modelling ABSTRACT There are many design codes for ballasted railway track. Some codes, such as UIC 719R, have a more empirical basis whilst others, such as that of Li Selig, are more theoretically based requiring the measurement of the engineering properties of the subgrade. However, even the more theoretical design methods were derived from cyclic laboratory testing that did not take the effects of principal stress rotation (PSR) into account. PSR occurs in the subgrade due to the moving axle loads. Previous research has shown that, for certain types of material, PSR can have a detrimental effect on both the resilient modulus and permanent deformations. This paper reports some initial work on PSR carried out as part of the RRUK project ‘An appraisal of railway track/sub-base design using modern geotechnical principles’. A FLAC numerical model is first used to simulate the stresses in the subgrade due to a passing train. The calculated stress conditions for a soil element in the subgrade are used in Hollow Cylinder Apparatus (HCA) tests, and the results of two different stress path tests are compared. INTRODUCTION Railway track foundations are commonly constructed on the basis of empirical design methods like the American Railway Engineering Association (AREA) and UIC methods. British Rail Research proposed a method of design that sought to prevent excessive permanent deformation, based