Concrete wave barriers to mitigate ground vibrations induced by railway traffic: a three-dimensional numerical study

Abstract Continuous wave barriers are mitigation measures to reduce vibrations induced by railway traffic which have been well studied in technical literature. Nevertheless, there are not many studies about discontinuous concrete wave barriers. By this reason, in this paper continuous and discontinu...

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Autores principales: Fernández-Ruiz,Jesús, Rodríguez,Luis Medina
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Publicado: Escuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 2020
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-915X20200003003952021-02-16Concrete wave barriers to mitigate ground vibrations induced by railway traffic: a three-dimensional numerical studyFernández-Ruiz,JesúsRodríguez,Luis Medina railway vibrations mitigation measures discontinuous barriers 3D dynamic numerical model time/space domain Abstract Continuous wave barriers are mitigation measures to reduce vibrations induced by railway traffic which have been well studied in technical literature. Nevertheless, there are not many studies about discontinuous concrete wave barriers. By this reason, in this paper continuous and discontinuous concrete wave barriers are studied and compared. With this objective, two theoretical cases with discontinuous barriers have been analysed and the results have been compared with those from both continuous barriers and without barriers cases. The study has been carried out with a dynamic numerical 3D FEM model formulated in the space/time domain, which has previously been validated by authors on the Lisbon-Oporto (Portugal) railway line. The numerical results show the discontinuous barriers with a small separation between axles (less than twice the thickness of the continuous barrier) are an efficient measure in the reduction of vibrations, reaching values of insertion loss of up to 13 dB. Therefore, these could be a very interesting alternative to continuous barriers, in order to conjugate a somewhat lower level of reduction of vibration at a considerable lower cost.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessEscuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileRevista de la construcción v.19 n.3 20202020-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-915X2020000300395en10.7764/rdlc.19.3.395
institution Scielo Chile
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language English
topic railway vibrations
mitigation measures
discontinuous barriers
3D dynamic numerical model
time/space domain
spellingShingle railway vibrations
mitigation measures
discontinuous barriers
3D dynamic numerical model
time/space domain
Fernández-Ruiz,Jesús
Rodríguez,Luis Medina
Concrete wave barriers to mitigate ground vibrations induced by railway traffic: a three-dimensional numerical study
description Abstract Continuous wave barriers are mitigation measures to reduce vibrations induced by railway traffic which have been well studied in technical literature. Nevertheless, there are not many studies about discontinuous concrete wave barriers. By this reason, in this paper continuous and discontinuous concrete wave barriers are studied and compared. With this objective, two theoretical cases with discontinuous barriers have been analysed and the results have been compared with those from both continuous barriers and without barriers cases. The study has been carried out with a dynamic numerical 3D FEM model formulated in the space/time domain, which has previously been validated by authors on the Lisbon-Oporto (Portugal) railway line. The numerical results show the discontinuous barriers with a small separation between axles (less than twice the thickness of the continuous barrier) are an efficient measure in the reduction of vibrations, reaching values of insertion loss of up to 13 dB. Therefore, these could be a very interesting alternative to continuous barriers, in order to conjugate a somewhat lower level of reduction of vibration at a considerable lower cost.
author Fernández-Ruiz,Jesús
Rodríguez,Luis Medina
author_facet Fernández-Ruiz,Jesús
Rodríguez,Luis Medina
author_sort Fernández-Ruiz,Jesús
title Concrete wave barriers to mitigate ground vibrations induced by railway traffic: a three-dimensional numerical study
title_short Concrete wave barriers to mitigate ground vibrations induced by railway traffic: a three-dimensional numerical study
title_full Concrete wave barriers to mitigate ground vibrations induced by railway traffic: a three-dimensional numerical study
title_fullStr Concrete wave barriers to mitigate ground vibrations induced by railway traffic: a three-dimensional numerical study
title_full_unstemmed Concrete wave barriers to mitigate ground vibrations induced by railway traffic: a three-dimensional numerical study
title_sort concrete wave barriers to mitigate ground vibrations induced by railway traffic: a three-dimensional numerical study
publisher Escuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
publishDate 2020
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