A comparison of two numerical models for the prediction of vibrations from underground railway traffic

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 608-624

  Gupta, S ^a   Hussein, M F M ^b   Degrande, G ^a   Hunt, H E M ^b   Clouteau, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Grande Voie des Vignes   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamic track tunnel soil interaction; Floating slabs; Ground vibrations; Periodic FE BE method; Pipe in pipe model

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAILROADS; TUNNELS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

DYNAMIC TRACK-TUNNEL-SOIL INTERACTION; GROUND VIBRATION; PIPE-IN-PIPE MODEL;

SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIPE; PREDICTION; RAILWAY; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; TUNNEL; UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION; VIBRATION;

EID: 33947212752     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2006.12.007     Document Type: Article

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