Reduction of ground vibration by means of barriers or soil improvement along a railway track

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 7-10, 2005, Pages 701-716

  Andersen, L ^a   Nielsen, S R K ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

BEM; Boundary elements; Elastic waves; FEM; Finite elements; Moving loads; Vibration isolation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DYNAMIC LOADS; ELASTIC WAVES; EMBANKMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAILROAD TRACKS; TRENCHING; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

GROUND VIBRATION; MOVING LOADS; VIBRATION ISOLATION;

VIBRATION CONTROL;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; RAILWAY; VIBRATION;

EID: 24344485187     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2005.04.007     Document Type: Article

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