scholarly journals Random-Forest Machine Learning Approach for High-Speed Railway Track Slab Deformation Identification Using Track-Side Vibration Monitoring

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 4756
Author(s):  
Gaoran Guo ◽  
Xuhao Cui ◽  
Bowen Du

High-speed railways (HSRs) are established all over the world owing to their advantages of high speed, ride comfort, and low vibration and noise. A ballastless track slab is a crucial part of the HSR, and its working condition directly affects the safe operation of the train. With increasing train operation time, track slabs suffer from various defects such as track slab warping and arching as well as interlayer disengagement defect. These defects will eventually lead to the deformation of track slabs and thus jeopardize safe train operation. Therefore, it is important to monitor the condition of ballastless track slabs and identify their defects. This paper proposes a method for monitoring track slab deformation using fiber optic sensing technology and an intelligent method for identifying track slab deformation using the random-forest model. The results show that track-side monitoring can effectively capture the vibration signals caused by train vibration, track slab deformation, noise, and environmental vibration. The proposed intelligent algorithm can identify track slab deformation effectively, and the recognition rate can reach 96.09%. This paper provides new methods for track slab deformation monitoring and intelligent identification.

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (21) ◽  
pp. 4496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongyuan Fang ◽  
Yingjie Su ◽  
Xueming Du ◽  
Fuming Wang ◽  
Bin Li

Uneven settlement of high-speed railway subgrade leads to the irregularity of high-speed railway line, which seriously affects high-speed train operation. The skylight point of high-speed railway operation is short and the maintenance time is limited. Therefore, how to quickly lift and repair the ballastless track slab in the subsidence section is an urgent problem to be solved in the maintenance of high-speed railways. The two-component non-aqueous reactive polymer material has the advantages of strong expansive force, fast reaction speed, and wide application range, which is extremely suitable for the repair of high-speed railway track slab subsidence and lifting. In this study, the expansion force characteristics of different density polymer materials and the stress-deformation curves at corresponding density are tested in laboratory to propose the mechanical parameters of polymer. Then, a three-dimensional finite element (FE) model of high-speed railway train ballastless-track subgrade is established based on ABAQUS. The mechanical characteristics of CRTS III ballastless track under different repair materials, different elevation, and different density of polymer grouting materials are analyzed. The results show that, under the dynamic load of the train, the stress value of polymer repairing material is less than that of cement slurry, presenting a compressive stress state, which is similar to that of the complete subgrade surface. In addition, within a certain thickness range, increasing the thickness of polymer is beneficial to reducing the difference of stress variation between polymer filling layer and complete pavement. Once beyond this range, the thickness of polymer has little effect on the force variation.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baye Mbaye Diouf ◽  
Ailan Che ◽  
Shaokong Feng

The phenomenon of vibration is quite frequent in various engineering works. Vibration analysis and monitoring occupy a significant place in scientific measurements and engineering applications. The quality of the underline structure actively influences the response of high-speed railway track plate and trackside. Due to years of service and under the action of train loads, bond failure between supporting track plate and cement asphalt mortar layer will imminently occur. And this will significantly influence the vertical dynamic response of a track slab and severely affect the safe operation of the entire railway system which can subsequently lead to a risk of derailment. Firstly, the purpose of the present study is to develop a practical 2D dynamic interaction model of vehicle-track subgrade based on a two-step simulation capable of analyzing the dynamic response of a track slab under different fault distribution in the CA mortar layer by using the commercial software Abaqus. Secondly, the distributed optical vibration sensing (DOVS) technology is discussed and applied on a section of high-speed railway near the Hongqiao station which has been in operation after a long period of degradation for real-time vibration monitoring. Overall, the numerical simulation results show that, in the elastic field, the track plate defects have a significant amplification effect on the vibration, and the magnification can be more than 2 to 3 times. The vibration monitoring results reveal two elements of the fault effects on the track slab dynamic response: the amplification of the dynamic response when the train is arriving and leaving the monitoring section and also causing extreme resonance when the train is passing increasing the vibration signal largely.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 2876
Author(s):  
Yingying Zhang ◽  
Lingyu Zhou ◽  
Akim D. Mahunon ◽  
Guangchao Zhang ◽  
Xiusheng Peng ◽  
...  

The mechanical performance of China Railway Track System type II (CRTS II) ballastless track suitable for High-Speed Railway (HSR) bridges is investigated in this project by testing a one-quarter-scaled three-span specimen under thermal loading. Stress analysis was performed both experimentally and numerically, via finite-element modeling in the latter case. The results showed that strains in the track slab, in the cement-emulsified asphalt (CA) mortar and in the track bed, increased nonlinearly with the temperature increase. In the longitudinal direction, the zero-displacement section between the track slab and the track bed was close to the 1/8L section of the beam, while the zero-displacement section between the track slab and the box girder bridge was close to the 3/8L section. The maximum values of the relative vertical displacement between the track bed and the bridge structure occurred in the section at three-quarters of the span. Numerical analysis showed that the lower the temperature, the larger the tensile stresses occurring in the different layers of the track structure, whereas the higher the temperature, the higher the relative displacement between the track system and the box girder bridge. Consequently, quantifying the stresses in the various components of the track structure resulting from sudden temperature drops and evaluating the relative displacements between the rails and the track bed resulting from high-temperature are helpful in the design of ballastless track structures for high-speed railway lines.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 3345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen ◽  
Qin ◽  
Xia ◽  
Bao ◽  
Huang ◽  
...  

The dimension detection of high-speed railway track slabs is one of the most important tasks before the track slabs delivery. Based on the characteristics of a 3D scanner which can acquire a large amount of measurement data continuously and rapidly in a short time, this paper uses the integration of 3D scanner and the intelligent robot to detect the CRTSIII (China Railway Track System) track slab supporting block plane, then the dense and accurate supporting block plane point cloud data is obtained, and the point cloud data is registered with the established model. An improved Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) plane fitting algorithm is also proposed to extract the data of supporting block plane point cloud in this paper. The detection method is verified and the quality analysis of the detection results is assessed by a lot of real point cloud data obtained on site. The results show that the method can meet the quality control of CRTSIII finished track slab and the detection standard. Compared with the traditional detection methods, the detection method proposed in this paper can complete the detection of a track slab in 7 min, which greatly improves the detection efficiency, and has better reliability. The method has wide application prospects in the field of railway component detection.


2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-231
Author(s):  
Wanming Zhai ◽  
Kaiyun Wang ◽  
Zhaowei Chen ◽  
Shengyang Zhu ◽  
Chengbiao Cai ◽  
...  

Abstract Motivated by the huge practical engineering demand for the fundamental understanding of mechanical characteristics of high-speed railway infrastructure, a full-scale multi-functional test platform for high-speed railway track–subgrade system is developed in this paper, and its main functions for investigating the mechanical performance of track–subgrade systems are elaborated with three typical experimental examples. Comprising the full-scale subgrade structure and all the five types of track structures adopted in Chinese high-speed railways, namely the CRTS I, the CRTS II and the CRTS III ballastless tracks, the double-block ballastless track and the ballasted track, the test platform is established strictly according to the construction standard of Chinese high-speed railways. Three kinds of effective loading methods are employed, including the real bogie loading, multi-point loading and the impact loading. Various types of sensors are adopted in different components of the five types of track–subgrade systems to measure the displacement, acceleration, pressure, structural strain and deformation, etc. Utilizing this test platform, both dynamic characteristics and long-term performance evolution of high-speed railway track–subgrade systems can be investigated, being able to satisfy the actual demand for large-scale operation of Chinese high-speed railways. As examples, three typical experimental studies are presented to elucidate the comprehensive functionalities of the full-scale multi-functional test platform for exploring the dynamic performance and its long-term evolution of ballastless track systems and for studying the long-term accumulative settlement of the ballasted track–subgrade system in high-speed railways. Some interesting phenomena and meaningful results are captured by the developed test platform, which provide a useful guidance for the scientific operation and maintenance of high-speed railway infrastructure.


2013 ◽  
Vol 443 ◽  
pp. 69-73
Author(s):  
Xiang Min Li ◽  
Suo Yan Zhang ◽  
Jun Liu

At present ballastless track has been widely applied to railway line for passenger in our country, therefore it has broad prospect. Cracks in ballastless track slabs are inevitable in the construction and operation of high-speed railway. Based on comprehensive investigation of documents, and taking cracks in ballastless track slabs as the main object, systematic and deep research has been done within this paper. The main research contents are as follows: First of all, the structure characteristics of CRTSIII ballastless track in high-speed railway are briefly introduced; Secondly, the paper mostly introduces the impacts what cracks make, the characteristics of cracks and how they form. Subsequently the paper introduces what are made to prevent cracks.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1142 ◽  
pp. 334-339
Author(s):  
Heng Qiong Jia ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Zhao Wei

For construction method of infusion bag, expansion of CRTSⅠCA mortar on site by core drilling, water absorption, chloride ion permeability and frost resistance and other properties were studied in comparison with performance of mortar in laboratory under standard curing. The results showed that expansion of the mortar on site was 2%, water absorption was 0.5%, charge amount was 210C, quality loss after 300 freeze-thaw cycles was -1.1%, the performance was much better than molded mortar in laboratory. Pore structure analysis showed that the internal pore diameter of the mortar on site was about 150μm, pore content was 9% to 12%; the internal pore diameter of the mortar in laboratory was also about 150μm, pore content was 10% to 15%. China railway track system(CRTSⅠ)slab ballastless track is one of the main structure forms of the modern high-speed railway and mainly composed of concrete basement, the Cement-emulsified Asphalt Mortar layer and concrete slab, featured by its rapid construction, convenient maintenance, and so on, has been widely applied in high-speed railway construction in our country. The cement-emulsified asphalt(CA) Mortar is one of the key materials and structures in slab ballastless track, providing the appropriate stiffness and elasticity which is usually composed of cement, emulsified asphalt, grit, water and many types of additives, containing a variety of inorganic/organic compositions and many types of surfactants, through the special bag, filling inside the flat cavity by its own weight between track slab and concrete basement with a thickness of 50mm (length×width 4962 mm×2400 mm). The construction method of CA mortar is grouting the non-woven fabrics bag after setting the bag under the track slab fixed by fine adjustment claw, which is convenient and has no requirement of mould removal. The bag is fixed before the perfusion process and does not produce wrinkles. The method greatly enhances the construction efficiency and has been widely utilized in high-speed railway. To full perfusion and tightness with track board, CA mortar contains gas former and expands after the end of infusion in a restricted state. Non-woven fabrics bag itself with breathable permeable, a small amount of water seeps around infusion bags in a period of time after the end of the infusion. Theoretically free water seepage of mortar on the one hand increases the compactness and durability of the mortar, but on the other hand will reduce the mortar expansion; the quality of filling layer mortar can meet the acceptance requirements in the engineering practice. In the same raw materials and mortar mixing, the performance of fresh mortar can require CRTSⅠ type of slab track emulsified asphalt cement mortar in high-speed railway Q / CR 469-2015. After water seepage performance of hardening mortar on site is different from laboratory mortar, because the surface of laboratory mortar is without compression and free deformation. In this paper, contrast mortar on site and molded mortar in laboratory, the performance of hardened mortar on site were studied.


Author(s):  
Ping Wang ◽  
Jinhui Xu ◽  
Li Wang ◽  
Kai Wei

In this paper, the vibrations of the vehicle – CRTS II (abbreviation for China Railway Track System II) slab ballastless track vertical coupling system for high-speed railways were studied. Based on the structural characteristics of the CRTS II ballastless track, a dynamic model of the CRTS II ballastless track was established, and an effective calculation method was applied to determine the frequency response of the system. In this method, the track structure was divided into innumerable substructures by fastener spacing. Four substructures under the wheel–rail force were chosen as the subject while the transmission of simple harmonic waves in such track substructures were solved using the symplectic method. In addition, the transfer function between the track irregularities and the dynamic response of the coupling system was solved, and with these results, the coupling system’s frequency response was obtained. Furthermore, the method was proven accurate and efficient (see examples in this paper). The effects of track parameters on the coupling system’s frequency response were also studied, which provide a basis for the optimization of the design of the CRTS II ballastless track. As shown in the study, with respect to the desired track geometry and dynamic displacement, the application of the fastening system featuring low stiffness and large damping can effectively reduce the frequency response of the coupling system, while the elastic modulus and damping of the cement asphalt mortar exert the least impact on the frequency response. In addition, the subgrade stiffness shall be managed at an appropriate level, and greater subgrade damping can effectively minimize the coupling system’s vibrations.


The running time of high-speed train is generally not late, and it can run normally in most cases. However, when severe weather conditions, train components and equipment, accidents or emergencies occur, it will lead to train operation delay and traffic congestion. Therefore, when an accident occurs, we need to adjust the train time or route timely and accurately. As an important algebraic system, max-plus algebra is widely used in the field of industrial production control. In industrial production, the most production mode is the discrete system , but the characteristics and the ability of discrete systems depends on the periodic of system and the number of workpiece produced by the system in unit time, and the characteristics of the system are closely related to the properties of the matrix, especially, the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix in the sense of max-plus algebra. Therefore, this paper studies the max-plus algebra theory and the solution of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices in the sense of max-plus algebra, establish the operation time matrix to optimize the train operation adjustment model of high-speed railway, and analyze the failure propagation model.


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