Visualization Monitoring and Safety Evaluation of Turnout Wheel–Rail Forces Based on BIM for Sustainable Railway Management
Xinyi Dong, Yuelei He, Hongyao Lu

TL;DR
This study uses BIM to improve turnout wheel-rail force monitoring for safer and more sustainable railway operations.
Contribution
A BIM-based monitoring scheme for turnout wheel–rail forces is proposed to enhance railway safety and sustainability.
Findings
A 3D BIM model of the No. 42 turnout improved monitoring equipment placement and construction process simulation.
MATLAB analysis validated safety indices like derailment coefficient and wheel load reduction rate.
The method supports sustainable railway infrastructure through whole-life-cycle management.
Abstract
With China’s high-speed rail network undergoing rapid expansion, turnouts constitute critical elements whose safety and stability are essential to railway operation. At present, the efficiency of wheel–rail force safety monitoring conducted in the small hours reserved for the construction and maintenance of operating lines without marking train operation lines is relatively low. To enhance the efficiency of turnout safety monitoring, in this study, a three-dimensional BIM model of the No. 42 turnout was established and a corresponding wheel–rail force monitoring scheme was devised. Collision detection for monitoring equipment placement and construction process simulation was conducted using Navisworks, such that the rationality of cable routing and the precision of construction sequence alignment were improved. A train wheel–rail force analysis program was developed in MATLAB R2022b to…
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Taxonomy
TopicsInfrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring · Railway Engineering and Dynamics · BIM and Construction Integration
