Ground vibration from trains: Experimental parameter characterization and validation of a numerical model

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 140-153

  Triepaischajonsak, N ^a   Thompson, D J ^a   Jones, C J C ^a   Ryue, J ^b   Priest, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Ulsan   (South Korea)

Author keywords

ground vibration; model validation; soil properties

Indexed keywords

ENGLAND; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GROUND VIBRATION; IMPACT EXCITATION; LAYERED GROUND; LAYERED STRUCTURES; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; RAILWAY TRACK; SEMI-ANALYTICAL MODEL; SOFT CLAY SOIL; SOIL PROPERTIES; WAVENUMBER-FREQUENCY DOMAIN;

CLAY; FORECASTING; LOCOMOTIVES; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROADS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EID: 79951861806     PISSN: 09544097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/09544097JRRT370     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (33)

1. Thompson, D. J. Railway noise and vibration: mecha-nisms, modelling and means of control, 2008 (Elsevier, UK).
2. Müller, R. Mitigation measures for open lines against vibration and ground-borne noise: a Swiss overview. In Noise and vibration mitigation for rail transportation systems, Notes on numerical fluid mechanics and mul-tidisciplinary design (Eds B. Schulte-Werning, et al.), In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Railway noise, Feldafing, Germany, 2008, pp. 264-270 (Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg).
3. Hussein, M. F. M. and Hunt, H. E. M. A numerical model for calculating vibration from a railway tunne (Pubitemid 47069435)
4. Jones, C. J. C. Groundborne noise from new railway tun-nels. In Proceedings of the Internoise 96, Liverpool, 1996, pp. 421-426.
5. Haskell, N. A. The dispersion of surface waves on multilayered media. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 1953, 43, 17-34.
6. Thomson, W. T. Transmission of elastic waves in plane infinite structures.J. Appl. Phys., 1950, 21, 89-93.
7. Kausel, E. and Roësset, J. M. Stiffness matrices for layered soils. Bull. Seismol. Soc.Am., 1981,71,1743-1761.
8. Auersch, L. Wave propagation in layered soil: theoreti-cal solution in wavenumber domain and experimental results ofhammer and railway traffic excitation. J. Sound Vibr., 1994, 173, 233-264.
9. Sheng, X., Jones, C. J. C., and Petyt, M. Ground vibration generated by a harmonic load acting on a railway track. J. Sound Vibr., 1999, 225, 3-28. (Pubitemid 129550323)
10. Sheng, X., Jones, C. J. C., and Petyt, M. Ground vibra-tion generated by a load moving along a railway track. J. Sound Vibr., 1999, 228, 129-156. (Pubitemid 129533145)
11. Sheng, X., Jones, C. J. C., and Thompson, D. J. A theo-retical model for ground vibration from trains generated by vertical track irregularities. J. Sound Vibr., 2004, 272, 937-965.
12. Sheng, X., Jones, C. J. C., and Thompson, D. J. A theoret-ical study on the influence of the track on train-induced groundvibration.J. Sound Vibr., 2004, 272, 909-936.
13. Sheng, X., Jones, C. J. C., and Thompson, D. J. A comparison of a theoretical model for quasi-statically and dynamically induced environmental vibration from trains with measurements. J. Sound Vibr., 2003, 267, 621-635.
14. Karlstrom, A. and Bostrom, A. An analytical model for train-induced ground vibrations from railways. J. Sound Vibr., 2006, 292, 221-241. (Pubitemid 43253687)
15. Lombaert, G., Degrande, G., Kogut, J., and Francois, S. The experimental validation of a numerical model for the prediction of railway induced vibrations. J. Sound Vibr., 2006, 297, 512-535.
16. Lombaert, G. and Degrande, G. Ground-borne vibration due to static and dynamic axle loads of Inter City and high-speedtrains.J. Sound Vibr., 2009, 319, 1036-1066.
17. Yang, Y. B. and Hung, H.H. A2.5D finite/infinite element approach for modelling visco-elastic bodies subjected to moving loads.Int.J. Numer. Methods Eng.,2001,51,1317-1336.
18. Gardien, W. and Stuit, H. G. Modelling ofsoil vibrations fromrailwaytunnels.J. Sound Vibr., 2003, 267, 605-620.
19. Jean, P., Guigou, C., and Villot, M. 2D1/2 BEM model of ground structure interaction.J. Build. Acoust., 2004, 11, 157-173.
20. Sheng, X., Jones, C. J. C., and Thompson, D. J. Mod-elling ground vibration from railways using wavenumber finite-and boundary-element methods. Proc. R. Soc. Lond., 2005, A461, 2043-2070. (Pubitemid 44420679)
21. Sheng, X., Jones, C. J. C., and Thompson, D. J. Prediction of ground vibration from trains using the wavenumber finite and boundary element methods. J. Sound Vibr., 2006, 293, 575-586.
22. Degrande, G., Clouteau, D., Othman, R., Arnst, M., Chebli, H., Klein, R., Chatterjee, P., and Janssens, B. A numerical model for ground-borne vibrations from underground railway traffic based on a periodic finite element-boundary element formulation. J. Sound Vibr., 2006, 293,645-666.
23. Nelson, J. and Saurenman, H. A prediction procedure for rail transportation groundborne noise and vibration. Transp. Res. Rec., 1987,1143, 26-35. (Pubitemid 18654784)
24. Nazarian, S. and Desai, M. R. Automated surface wave method: fieldtesting.J. Geotech. Engng, Proc.ASCE, 1993, 119, 1094-1111.
25. Forchap, E. A. and Schmid, G. Determination of sub-soil properties using a frequency-wavenumber analysis of Rayleigh surface waves. In Proceedings of the Eurodyn 99, Prague (Eds L. Fryba and J. Naprstek), 1999, pp. 983-988 (Balkema, Rotterdam).
26. Jones, C. J. C. Use ofnumerical models to determine the effectiveness of anti-vibration systems for railways. Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng., Transp., 1994,105, 43-51.
27. Frisk, G. V. Ocean and seabed acoustics: a theory of wave propagation, 1st edition, 1994, p. 89 (Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ).
28. Jones, D. V. The surface propagation ofground vibration. PhD Thesis, University of Southampton, 1987.
29. Remington, P. J., Kurzweil, L. G., and Towers, D. A. Low frequencynoise andvibrationfromtrains. In Transporta-tion noise reference book, (Ed. P.M. Nelson), Chapter 16, 1987 (Butterworth, London).
30. Peplow, A. T., Jones, C. J. C., and Petyt, M. Sur-face vibration propagation over a layered elastic half-space with an inclusion. Appl. Acoust., 1999, 56, 283-296. (Pubitemid 129665307)
31. Sheng, X., Jones, C. J. C., and Thompson, D. J. TGV-a computer program for train-induced ground vibration. ISVR Technical Memorandum No. 878, Institute ofSound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton, 2001.
32. Grassie, S. L., Saxon, M. J., and Smith, J. D. Mea-surement of Longitudinal rail irregularities and crite-ria for acceptable grinding. J. Sound Vibr., 1999, 227, 949-964. (Pubitemid 129533127)
33. ISO 3095:2005, Railway applications acoustics measure-ment of noise emitted by railbound vehicles, Interna-tional Standards Organization, 2005.