Dynamics of the railway track and the underlying soil: The boundary-element solution, theoretical results and their experimental verification

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 671-695

  Auersch, L ^a  

^a BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ballast track; Boundary element method; Green's function, Vehicle track interation measurement; Ground vibration; Rail pods; Railway vibration; Slab track; Track compliance measurement; Track dynamics; Track soil interation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS;

BALLAST TRACK; GREEN'S FUNCTION, VEHICLE-TRACK INTERACTION MEASUREMENT; GROUND VIBRATION; RAIL PODS; RAILWAY VIBRATION; SLAB TRACKS; TRACK COMPLIANCE MEASUREMENT; TRACK DYNAMICS; TRACK-SOIL INTERACTION;

RAILROAD TRACKS;

EID: 26644465527     PISSN: 00423114     EISSN: 17445159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00423110412331307663     Document Type: Article

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