What are benefits of rail pad?
Rail pads offer key benefits like reducing vibration, noise, and wear by cushioning the impact between rails and sleepers, which extends track component life, improves ride comfort, increases stability, and lowers maintenance costs, ultimately making railways safer and more efficient.
They achieve this by distributing dynamic loads, preventing direct rail-to-sleeper contact, and providing essential electrical insulation for signaling systems, all while enhancing track durability and performance.
Functions of Rubber Rail Pad
In general, the main functions of rubber rail pads are reducing the high-speed vibration and impact of steel rails, protecting the railroad bed and the sleepers, and conduct electrical insulation to the information system. During the application, the rubber rail pads are often composed to the air. So in order to prolong the lifetime of rubber rail pads, we should improve the ageing resistance, cold-resistant, heat resistance and rot resistance of rubber rail pads.
Railway pads working principle
The railway pad working principle is mainly based on the railway pad materials' elasticity and their structure design:
When trains pass, railway pads will have an elastic deformation. This kind of deformation can absorb the trains' dynamic load, and reduce causing strict impact on the rails and the tie.
What's more, the materials of railway pads, like rubber, EVA, or HDPE, all have a great capacity for absorbing and dispersing energy. When the train contacts the rail pad, the railway pads absorb and disperse the energy to decline the railroad track systems' integral shake and noise.
After the train passes, the railway pad will be restored to its original shape and state. That ensures the railway pad's durability and stability during long use.
GNEE's railway pads have a wide range of materials and types, such as rubber rail pad, HDPE rail pad, EVA rail pad, crane rail pad, etc. And there are two patterns for your selection- grooved or studded. They are suitable for various models of high-speed rails, regular rail, and crane rail.
| Raw Material | Rubber, EVA, TPEE, HDPE |
| Standard | UIC, AREMA, TB/T2626-95 |
| Application | 43kg/m, 50kg/m, 60kg/m, 75kg/m,115RE, UIC54, UIC60, S49 |
| Model number | 43-7-7, 43-10-7, 50-7-9, 50-10-9, 60-10-17, 60-12-17 |
| Operating temperature | -50~70 degrees |
| Certificate | MSDS, ROHS, REACH |
| Notes | They should be stored in a clean, ventilated place. Don't be in direct sunlight, and keep away from the heat source and chemical reagent. Don't touch the oil, organic solvent, and other chemicals. Banned exposure. |
We also support custom-made products. No matter what type of rail pads you need, we have the solution for all requirements.
