Experimental validation of a numerical model for subway induced vibrations

Journal of Sound and Vibration

Volumn 321, Issue 3-5, 2009, Pages 786-812

  Gupta, S ^a   Degrande, G ^a   Lombaert, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; COUPLED CIRCUITS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORECASTING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LOCOMOTIVES; NUMERICAL METHODS; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROADS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; SUBWAYS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUNNELS; UNDERPASSES; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

A TRAINS; ANALYTICAL FORMULATIONS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT MODELS; BOUNDARY ELEMENTS; DIFFERENT SPEED; DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS; EFFICIENT FORMULATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FINITE ELEMENTS; FLOQUET; FREE FIELD VIBRATIONS; FREE FIELDS; FREQUENCY-WAVENUMBER DOMAINS; INDUCED VIBRATIONS; LONDON UNDERGROUNDS; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTIONS; MOVING LOADS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PERIODIC MEDIAS; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; TRAIN SPEED; TUNNEL WALLS; UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS;

RAILROAD TUNNELS;

EID: 60349115880     PISSN: 0022460X     EISSN: 10958568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2008.10.014     Document Type: Article

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