scholarly journals An assessment of the dynamic interaction of the rolling stock and the long-span bridges on high-speed railways

2017 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 00014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonid K. Dyachenko ◽  
Andrey V. Benin
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Rolling Stock ◽  
Long Span Bridges ◽  
Long Span

scholarly journals Identification of Sleeper Support Conditions Using Mechanical Model Supported Data-Driven Approach

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 3609
Author(s):  
Mykola Sysyn ◽  
Michal Przybylowicz ◽  
Olga Nabochenko ◽  
Lei Kou
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Rolling Stock ◽  
Monitoring Methods ◽  
Beam Dynamic ◽  
Track Geometry ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
Support Conditions

The ballasted track superstructure is characterized by a relative quick deterioration of track geometry due to ballast settlements and the accumulation of sleeper voids. The track zones with the sleeper voids differ from the geometrical irregularities with increased dynamic loading, high vibration, and unfavorable ballast-bed and sleeper contact conditions. This causes the accelerated growth of the inhomogeneous settlements, resulting in maintenance-expensive local instabilities that influence transportation reliability and availability. The recent identification and evaluation of the sleeper support conditions using track-side and on-board monitoring methods can help planning prevention activities to avoid or delay the development of local instabilities such as ballast breakdown, white spots, subgrade defects, etc. The paper presents theoretical and experimental studies that are directed at the development of the methods for sleeper support identification. The distinctive features of the dynamic behavior in the void zone compared to the equivalent geometrical irregularity are identified by numeric simulation using a three-beam dynamic model, taking into account superstructure and rolling stock dynamic interaction. The spectral features in time domain in scalograms and scattergrams are analyzed. Additionally, the theoretical research enabled to determine the similarities and differences of the dynamic interaction from the viewpoint of track-side and on-board measurements. The method of experimental investigation is presented by multipoint track-side measurements of rail-dynamic displacements using high-speed video records and digital imaging correlation (DIC) methods. The method is used to collect the statistical information from different-extent voided zones and the corresponding reference zones without voids. The applied machine learning methods enable the exact recent void identification using the wavelet scattering feature extraction from track-side measurements. A case study of the method application for an on-board measurement shows the moderate results of the recent void identification as well as the potential ways of its improvement.

scholarly journals Experimental Study on Vibration Characteristics of Unit-Plate Ballastless Track Systems Laid on Long-Span Bridges Using Full-Scale Test Rigs

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiqi Zheng ◽  
Xingwang Sheng ◽  
Zhihui Zhu ◽  
Tianjing Luo ◽  
Zecheng Liu
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Vibration Characteristics ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Long Span Bridges ◽  
Isolation Layer ◽  
Long Span ◽  
Ballastless Track ◽  
Excited Vibration ◽  
Scale Test ◽  
Reduction Effect

In this work, we present a series of hammering tests on full-scale unit-plate ballastless tracks used for long-span bridges. There is no denying that it is a new attempt to pave ballastless tracks on high-speed railway long-span bridges; the related issues deserve to be studied, and especially the vibration characteristics. Hence, the vibration characteristics and transmission rules of the ballastless track with geotextile or rubber isolation layers are explored, and the vibration reduction effect of the rubber isolation layer is analyzed. The main conclusions are as follows: the isolation layers change vibration modes and transmission characteristics of ballastless tracks; the introduction of the rubber isolation layer makes the excited vibration frequency range of the ballastless track concentrated; and the vibrations of the ballastless track with the rubber isolation layers are stable. Moreover, the rubber isolation layer has an obvious attenuation effect on vibration transmission in ballastless track structures. When the vibration is transmitted from the rail to the bridge deck, the vibration level differences of the ballastless track with rubber isolation layers are 20 dB larger than that of the ballastless track with the geotextile isolation layers. The vibration attenuation rate of the rubber isolation layer is about ten times larger than that of geotextile isolation layer.

scholarly journals High-Speed Train-Track-Bridge Dynamic Interaction considering Wheel-Rail Contact Nonlinearity due to Wheel Hollow Wear

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Chang ◽  
Liang Ling ◽  
Zhaoling Han ◽  
Kaiyun Wang ◽  
Wanming Zhai
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
High Speed Train ◽  
Train Track ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Long Span ◽  
Continuous Girder Bridge ◽  
Girder Bridge ◽  
Track Bridge

Wheel hollow wear is a common form of wheel-surface damage in high-speed trains, which is of great concern and a potential threat to the service performance and safety of the high-speed railway system. At the same time, rail corridors in high-speed railways are extensively straightened through the addition of bridges. However, only few studies paid attention to the influence of wheel-profile wear on the train-track-bridge dynamic interaction. This paper reports a study of the high-speed train-track-bridge dynamic interactions under new and hollow worn wheel profiles. A nonlinear rigid-flexible coupled model of a Chinese high-speed train travelling on nonballasted tracks supported by a long-span continuous girder bridge is formulated. This modelling is based on the train-track-bridge interaction theory, the wheel-rail nonelliptical multipoint contact theory, and the modified Craig–Bampton modal synthesis method. The effects of wheel-rail nonlinearity caused by the wheel hollow wear are fully considered. The proposed model is applied to predict the vertical and lateral dynamic responses of the high-speed train-track-bridge system under new and worn wheel profiles, in which a high-speed train passing through a long-span continuous girder bridge at a speed of 350 km/h is considered. The numerical results show that the wheel hollow wear changes the geometric parameters of the wheel-rail contact and then deteriorates the train-track-bridge interactions. The worn wheels can increase the vibration response of the high-speed railway bridges.

Development and Challenge of the Vehicle and Highway Bridges Dynamic Interaction

2013 ◽  
Vol 574 ◽  
pp. 135-150
Author(s):  
Jia Feng Liu ◽  
Yan Li
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Model ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Engineering Application ◽  
Highway Bridges ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Dynamic Responses ◽  
Coupling Vibration ◽  
Safety Control ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Long Span

With the development of long-span flexible bridges and the increase of highway transportation, both the dynamic responses of highway bridges under high-speed and heavy vehicles and the safety control of vehicles have deserved general concerns. First, this paper briefly discussed some researches on coupling vibration of vehicle and highway-bridges, then roundly summarized main research achievements accounting on the vehicle analytical model, bridge analytical model, surface roughness of road, numerical method of vehicle-bridge coupling vibration and some other aspects. Meanwhile, some research trends and challenge on vehicle and bridge dynamic interaction in engineering application were pointed out.

Effects of the highway live load on the additional forces of the continuously welded rails of a long-span suspension bridge

2021 ◽  
pp. 095440972110619
Author(s):  
Xiangdong Yu ◽  
Nengyu Cheng ◽  
Haiquan Jing
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Suspension Bridge ◽  
Additional Stress ◽  
Live Load ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Maximum Displacement ◽  
Obvious Effect ◽  
Long Span Bridges ◽  
Long Span ◽  
Track Bridge

High-speed running trains have higher regularity requirements for rail tracks. The track-bridge interaction of long-span bridges for high-speed railways has become a key factor for engineers and researchers in the last decade. However, studies on the track-bridge interaction of long-span bridges are rare because the bridges constructed for high-speed railways are mainly short- or moderate-span bridges, and the effects of the highway live load on the additional forces of continuously welded rails (CWRs) have not been reported. In the present study, the effects of the highway live load on the additional forces of a CWR of a long-span suspension bridge are investigated through numerical simulations. A track-bridge spatial analysis model was established using the principle of the double-layer spring model and the bilinear resistance model. The additional stress and displacement of the rail are calculated, and the effects of the highway live load are analyzed and compared with those without a highway live load. The results show that the highway live load has an obvious effect on the additional forces of a CWR. Under a temperature force, the highway live load increases the maximum tensile stress and compressive stress by 10 and 13%, respectively. Under a bending force, the highway live load increases the maximum compressive rail stress and maximum displacement by 50 and 54%, respectively. Under a rail breaking force, when the highway live load is taken into consideration, the rail displacement at both sides of the broken rail varies by 50 and 42%, respectively. The highway live load must be taken into consideration when calculating the additional forces of rails on highway-railway long-span bridges.

Dynamic Interaction Aspects of Cable-Stayed Guideways for High Speed Ground Transportation

1974 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. G. Meisenholder ◽  
P. Weidlinger
Keyword(s):  
Elastic Foundation ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Traveling Wave ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Live Load ◽  
Beam On Elastic Foundation ◽  
Long Span ◽  
Cable Stays

This paper describes the dynamic considerations in the design of a long span (200 to 600 ft) cable-stayed guideways for future tracked levitated vehicles (TLV’s) which will be used for high speed ground transportation. A design approach is described in which a cable-stayed guideway structure can be synthesized to simulate the behavior of a beam on elastic foundation. This result is achieved by the “cable-tuning” approach, in which the cable stays are selected to achieve an equivalent uniform elastic foundation. The design approach insures that the live load deflection of the trackway beam is manifested as a traveling wave which moves horizontally at the same velocity as the vehicle, thereby minimizing dynamic interaction problems. Parametric results are presented for the dynamic response of a beam on elastic foundation. Optimum cable and tower configurations are developed for this guideway concept and a typical conceptual design is described.

scholarly journals A METHOD FOR THE EXTRACTION OF LONG-TERM DEFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS OF LONG-SPAN HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY BRIDGES USING HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B7 ◽  
pp. 35-38
Author(s):  
H. G. Jia ◽  
L. Y. Liu
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Control Point ◽  
Deformation Monitoring ◽  
Structural Deformation ◽  
Sar Images ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Long Span Bridges ◽  
Long Span

Natural causes and high-speed train load will result in the structural deformation of long-span bridges, which greatly influence the safety operation of high-speed railway. Hence it is necessary to conduct the deformation monitoring and regular status assessment for long-span bridges. However for some traditional surveying technique, e.g. control-point-based surveying techniques, a lot of human and material resources are needed to perform the long-term monitoring for the whole bridge. In this study we detected the long-term bridge deformation time-series by persistent scatterer interferometric synthetic aperture radar (PSInSAR) technique using the high-resolution SAR images and external digital elevation model. A test area in Nanjing city in China is chosen and TerraSAR-X images and Tandem-X for this area have been used. There is the Dashengguan bridge in high speed railway in this area as study object to evaluate this method. Experiment results indicate that the proposed method can effectively extract the long-term deformation of long-span high-speed railway bridge with higher accuracy.

Moving Load and Fatigue Analysis of a Long Span High Speed Railway Bridge

2012 ◽  
Vol 629 ◽  
pp. 403-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessio Pipinato
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Moving Load ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Fatigue Analysis ◽  
Suspension Bridges ◽  
Railway Bridge ◽  
Structural Shape ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Long Span Bridges ◽  
Long Span

Long span bridges, as cable-stayed and suspension bridges, have gained much popularity in recent decades for their structural shape, efficient use of materials and other optimal solution. A new phase is starting with main span lengths going over thousands of meter. As a matter of fact, small size substructures are required, the development of efficient construction techniques are growing on and faster progress in the FEM and design are evident. Ever since the dramatic collapse of the first examples of such long span structures, as the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940, much attention has been given to the dynamic behavior of these structures. In this paper a moving load analysis performed on a cable stayed high speed railway bridge is presented together with a fatigue analysis of the cable stays, discussed according to the Italian code verification procedure.

scholarly journals A METHOD FOR THE EXTRACTION OF LONG-TERM DEFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS OF LONG-SPAN HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY BRIDGES USING HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B7 ◽  
pp. 35-38
Author(s):  
H. G. Jia ◽  
L. Y. Liu
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Control Point ◽  
Deformation Monitoring ◽  
Structural Deformation ◽  
Sar Images ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Long Span Bridges ◽  
Long Span

Natural causes and high-speed train load will result in the structural deformation of long-span bridges, which greatly influence the safety operation of high-speed railway. Hence it is necessary to conduct the deformation monitoring and regular status assessment for long-span bridges. However for some traditional surveying technique, e.g. control-point-based surveying techniques, a lot of human and material resources are needed to perform the long-term monitoring for the whole bridge. In this study we detected the long-term bridge deformation time-series by persistent scatterer interferometric synthetic aperture radar (PSInSAR) technique using the high-resolution SAR images and external digital elevation model. A test area in Nanjing city in China is chosen and TerraSAR-X images and Tandem-X for this area have been used. There is the Dashengguan bridge in high speed railway in this area as study object to evaluate this method. Experiment results indicate that the proposed method can effectively extract the long-term deformation of long-span high-speed railway bridge with higher accuracy.

Alternate Designs for Long Span Bridges

PCI Journal ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
Felix Kulka
Keyword(s):  
Long Span Bridges ◽  
Long Span
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