Optimising low acoustic impedance back-fill material wave barrier dimensions to shield structures from ground borne high speed rail vibrations

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 44, Issue , 2013, Pages 557-564

  Connolly, D ^a   Giannopoulos, A ^a   Fan, W ^a   Woodward, P K ^b   Forde, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ground borne vibration; High speed rail; High speed train; Low acoustic impedance back fill material; Trench; Vibration isolation; Vibration mitigation; Vibration prevention; Wave barrier

Indexed keywords

GROUND-BORNE VIBRATIONS; HIGH SPEED RAIL; HIGH SPEED TRAIN (HST); TRENCH; VIBRATION ISOLATIONS; VIBRATION MITIGATION; VIBRATION PREVENTION; WAVE BARRIERS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; COSTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROAD TRACKS; RAILROADS; SURFACE WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIBRATION CONTROL;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84876371449     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2013.03.034     Document Type: Article

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