HEADS Rail

Introduced by TechSOFT Engineering Services

Railway Engineering Applications
 HEADS Rail Release 24.0
(1998 – 2022)
 

HEADS Rail is applicable for Railways/ Metro Railways for design speed of 135
Kilometres per Hour or more, Standard gauge, Broad Gauge, Meter gauge, any
defined maximum “Cant” at Super elevated sections giving inner edge rotation,
Curves with Clothoid Transitions, Earthwork Estimation, Construction Drawings,
Design of rail Yards, Design of Points, Crossings, Track Diversion in case of Repairing,
Curvature, Train Resistance & Haulage Capacity on Grades and Track stresses.
 HEADS Rail applications
HEADS Rail features for the following highly demanded applications....
• Processing Topographic Survey Data by Total Station, Auto Level etc.
• Processing Topographic Data downloaded from Satellite
• Design of Railway Track, Double Tracking with Points and Crossings
• Design of Railway Yard
• Design of Elevated Metro Railway
• Design of Underground Metro Railway
• Design of Railway Bridges, RCC Box and Pipe Culverts, Underpasses
• Stream Hydrology and Hydrograph
• Design of Alignment and Profile of Railway Tunnels
• Structural Design of Lining and Portal for Railway Tunnels
• Land Acquisition Record and Land Map Drawing Management
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Processing Topographic Survey Data

And
Processing Topographic Data downloaded from
Satellite
 Topographic Survey
Application of Topo-Survey Instruments

• Total Station instrument is most commonly used for

topographic survey along the proposed highway corridor

• GPS instrument is extremely useful in fixing green field

alignments for realignments and bypasses, identifying rural
roads from core network and new hill road alignments
 Topographic Survey
Topo Survey Data Downloaded from Satellite by SRTM

The Satellite data by Global Mapper are effectively used by

HEADS Rail to obtain the ground Topographic data
 Digital Terrain Model and Ground Contours
By using Global Mapper the ground elevation data by Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) may be
downloaded from Internet, without any field survey. This ground data is processed in HEADS Site to develop the
Digital Terrain Model (DTM) by Delauney Triangulation and the Ground Contours are created. Next, for site
levelling and grading the various excavation platforms are planned and for each excavation platform the
horizontal and vertical alignments for the reference axis is designed. Finally cross sections of the platforms are
processed to estimate the cut & fill quantities in respect of the existing ground. A well formatted Text Report for
quantity estimation and Mass Haul diagram are generated.
 HEADS Rail Release 24 – Ground Survey
Applications for Land Survey , DTM and GPS:

• Processing of Total station Survey data,

• Development of Ground Modeling,
• Digital Terrain Model, Digital Mapping, producing Survey Base Plan,
• Ground Long and Cross Sections,
• Contouring, Perspective views,
• Traverse Co-ordinates correction by Bowditch, Transit, Closed Link, EDM
Applications,
• GPS Survey and Co ordinate Transformations,
• Storage of Ground information in Layered CAD System compatible to AutoCAD,
MicroStation etc.,
• In-built CAD graphics and design system is very sophisticated and full of drawing
features
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Design of Railway Track, Double Tracking with

Points and Crossings
and
Design of Railway Yard
HEADS Rail Release 24….Technology
• For railway geometric design, HEADS Rail uses “String” modeling technique is efficient
for railway projects involving Cost Control for new rail routes, double tracking of existing
routes, Surface Correction & Strengthening, Design of multi-alignment railway junctions,
points, crossings, yards, varying embankment cross-sections, design of Underground
Metro Rails, Elevated Metro Rails, Mono Rails, Hill routes having special considerations,
Railway Tunnels with sharp turns ranging from 90 to 180 degrees. In HEADS Rail the
conventional String technique is modified to make the production more efficient. HEADS
Rail has full power CAD engine to view and edit drawings as desired. The drawings are
compatible to all commonly used CAD softwares.

• It is simple in HEADS Rail to transform the Surveyors coordinates into Global UTM / GPS
Coordinates using in-built CAD engine, next the transformed drawing may be opened
for conversion to KML/KMZ file to open in Google Earth to plan for Green Field
alignments, Bypasses and Realignments as larger area with existing Land use are visible.
Even the Original Ground Elevations along with Easting & Northing Coordinates are
available from the satellite images without doing the topographic survey at the field.
 HEADS Pro Release 24 Features….Continued
Applications for Engineering Design :

• Alignment design for Railways, Metro Rail Tunnels, Mono Rails, MRT, LRT etc.
• Processing Geometric design with complete set of site setting-out
information
• Producing best formatted construction drawings for PLAN, PROFILE, Cross
Sections
• Produces Estimation of Quantities,
• Analysis of Item Unit Rates,
• Hydrological design of Drainage,
• Under ground Metro Railways with generation of Coach profiles at turnings
etc.
• Elevated Metro Railways
• Detailed and well formatted Design Reports and Drawings
 Railway Geometrics
Design of Alignment and Profile

Design of alignment and vertical profile is best done in CAD

Workspace by interactive way using various design facilities
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Design and Construction

of
Railway Track
and
Double Tracking
Design of Railway Track
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Design of Railway
Yard, Crossings and Points
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Design of Rail Points and Crossings
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Design of Rail Yards, Points and
Crossings
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Design of Rail Yards
Alignment & Structural Design of Elevated Metro Rail
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Design of Rail Bridges and Structures

Bridges and Structures by ASTRA Pro

 
• Design of Steel Truss Bridges (Open Web Girder Bridges) of Warren and K-Type
• Design of Steel Plate Girder Bridge
• Design of Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC) and Pre-stressed Concrete (PSC) I/Box Girder Bridges
• Design of RCC Box underpass under Roadway and Railway
• Design of RCC Box Culverts
• Design of RCC Slab and Pipe Culverts
• RCC Retaining Wall and Reinforced Earth Walls
• Design of Sheet Piles, Well, Pile Open Foundations
 
Designs are provided with Editable CAD Drawings and Detailed Text or Excel Reports.
Design of Steel Truss or Open Web Girder Railway Bridges
with complete set of editable Fabrication Drawings
Design of Pre-Stressed Concrete Bridges
Pre-stressed Concrete Box-Girder Bridges
with segmental construction
Design of Arch-suspension / Bow String Girder
Bridges with relevant drawings and Quantity
Design Drawings for Arch Cable Suspension
or
Bow String Girder Bridge
Design and Construction of Well Foundation
Detailed design with Scour Depth, Foundation Depth etc.
 Design and Construction of Pile Foundation
Bridge Design - RCC Pile Foundations for bridges from soil structure interaction and structural
capacity. The pile capacity is determined from Skin Friction and End Bearing considering the pile
passing through various soil strata, next Structural design for reinforcements. The CAD drawing
contains design based structural detailing.
Design and Construction of Box Culverts
Design and Construction of Box Culverts
and Box Pushed Underpass
 Design and Construction of
RCC Slab Culverts and Pipe Culvers (NP3/NP4)
Design and Construction of RCC Slab Culverts and Pipe Culvers (NP3/NP4)
Design of RCC Retaining Wall as Cantilever, Propped Cantilever
and Counterfort, sample CAD drawings are provided for general
arrangements and structural detailing.
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Tunnel Design and Construction
Design and Estimation of
Rail Tunnels Through Hills / Underground
Boring
By Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM)
or by Cut-and-Cover
or by Drill-and-Blast
as NATM (New Austrian Tunnelling Method)
 Design and Construction
of Tunnels include Rock Mechanics and Ground Engineering with Rock bolting, Pressure Grout, Shotcrete, Wire mesh, Steel Ribs and RCC
Lining.
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Bored Tunnel Design

The Cross section Drawings are produced with estimation details for Design cut, Under cut, Over
Cut and Pay line cut.
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Structural Design of Tunnel Lining and Portal

Survey by Robot Type Total Station delivers Scan data which is accurately processed by HEADS
Rail to produce accurate Alignment, Profile and Cross Sections for the Tunnel, The design of
RCC Tunnel Lining with Portal and Steel Ribs are rare in other Railway design softwares,
Structural Design of Tunnel Lining with Grouting, Wire mesh, Steel Fibre Shotcrete,
Steel Ribs, Rock Bolting and portal using Rock Mass Rating (RMR) for Drill & Blast
method of Tunnelling (NATM).
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Database Management of Land Records Details

and
Land Map Drawings
By
Microsoft ACCESS and CAD Drawing Viewer
 Land records may be Entered and stored in MS Access Database format and CAD Drawings

For any Site preparation the land records and land maps in the existing ground are most essential and properly coordinated by HEADS Rail. The establishment of correlation between the database records in Microsoft ACCESS
and the related drawings are extremely useful facilities for maintaining the land records by the users.
Land Record Management ….continued
Land Record Data Entry and Retrieval
Saving as CSV file compatible to MS Excel / Access
 Thank you….

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