Assessment of railway vibrations using an efficient scoping model

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue , 2014, Pages 37-47

  Connolly, D P ^a   Kouroussis, G ^b   Giannopoulos, A ^c   Verlinden, O ^b   Woodward, P K ^a   Forde, M C ^c  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ABAQUS; Environmental impact assessment; Free field; High speed rail vibration; High speed train; High speed ground transportation; Initial vibration assessment; Railway track dynamics; ScopeRail; Scoping assessment

Indexed keywords

FREE FIELDS; HIGH SPEED RAIL; HIGH SPEED TRAIN (HST); INITIAL VIBRATION ASSESSMENT; RAILWAY TRACK DYNAMICS; SCOPERAIL; SCOPING;

ABAQUS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; FORECASTING; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROADS; SOILS; TOOLS; VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGH-SPEED TRAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAILWAY; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; VIBRATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84891779742     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2013.12.003     Document Type: Article

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