Efficiency of trenches along railways for trains moving at sub- or supersonic speeds

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 625-641

  Karlstrom A ^a   Bostrom A ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Analytical model; Ground vibrations; Trench; Vibration isolation; Wave barrier

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EMBANKMENTS; FOURIER SERIES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAILS; TRENCHING; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ANISOTROPIC KIRCHHOFF PLATE; EULER-BERNOULLI BEAMS; LOW-FREQUENCY GROUND VIBRATIONS;

RAILROADS;

EMBANKMENT; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GROUND MOTION; RAILWAY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRENCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 33947105575     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2006.12.005     Document Type: Article

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