Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra has been
funded to start a project for manufacturing railway sleepers
from plastic wastes and iron slag to replace imported
wooden sleepers. In this paper, performance of wooden
sleepers in tracks of Egyptian Railways, including high cost
and material defects as well as reasons to find out a new
sleeper will be presented. Previous studies for using composite
materials in manufacturing railway sleepers are illustrated.
Mechanical testing has been carried out to determine
the important properties of the new mixture; hence results
are compared with the minimum requirements of the international
railway standards. Linear analysis has been conducted
using 3D-SAP2000 software to simulate the actual
performance of the proposed sleeper. It is found that the
testing results are larger than the required values. Thus; it is
concluded that the tested material is effective and adequate
to be used in manufacture of railway sleepers.