Numerical analysis of beam rail bridges - impact factors in the vertical deflection
The impact factors in the vertical deflection obtained in dynamic analysis of BTT systems - bridged / track structure / high speed train (BTT) - are discussed. The BTT system is one of 5 bridges spanning from 15 m to 27 m, modelled as simply supported beams loaded by ICE-3 trains traveling at high speeds. The two-dimensional, physically non-linear BTT model includes: viscoelastic suspension of rail vehicles on two independent axle bogies and non-linear one-sided wheel-rail contact springs according to Hertz theory, access zones for composite construction. The BTT system was divided into subsystems loaded with vertical interactions transmitted by elastic or viscoelastic and physically linear or nonlinear constraints. Using Lagrange equations and internal aggregation of subsystems, discretised according to the finite element method, matrix equations of motion of the subsystems were obtained, with explicit linear left sides and nonlinear implicit right sides, which were integrated numerically using the Newmark method with parameters βN=1/4, γN=1/2. The analysis focus on the effect of random track irregularities on the dynamic response of BTT systems.