... found, with airborne noise was reduced by up to 12 dB. These results highlight the effectiveness of integrated barriers in protecting nearby residents from train impacts. noise public health railway tracks transport vibration Vibration and noise are intrinsic characteristics...

... and the inclined plane method. A coupling model of the dynamic stabiliser and railway track was established using coupling of the discrete-element method, finite-element method and multi-body dynamics, and a test platform was created to validate the accuracy of the simulation model. The response surface method...

... the reductions in fuel consumption in both alternatives (Isler et al., 2022). Other strategies for optimising and reducing energy consumption, such as the use of energy harvesting technologies for railway tracks using train loads to extract energy (Duarte and Ferreira, 2017), or using regenerative...

.... 30 06 2023 07 08 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2024 dynamics numerical modelling railway tracks The front part of railway points (also known as a turnout or switch) includes a curved point blade, a straight point blade, a curved stock rail...

... key CP5 sites, including the demonstration of early targeted slope monitoring. 02 04 2019 06 02 2020 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 geotechnical engineering railway tracks slopes – stabilisation East Anglia's low-lying landscape has been moulded...

... and damping of the vibration isolation springs were the primary influencing factors. 24 04 2019 09 08 2019 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2019 noise railway tracks viaducts According to Section 2.1, the final exciting force F_bs is the sum...

... 04 2019 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2019 concrete structures railway tracks strength & testing of materials 1 σ = σ max δ 0 δ δ < δ 0 σ max δ f − δ δ f − δ 0 δ > δ 0...

... of LCPTS at high temperature, the crack status should be closely monitored. Figure 1. Cross-section of LCPTS concrete structures maintenance & inspection railway tracks Longitudinally coupled prefabricated track slab (LCPTS) is one of the main structures of ballastless track...

...://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) 2018 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. environment railway systems railway...

... Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 dynamics rail track design railway tracks Each beam element has two nodes and each node includes two degrees of freedom: vertical displacement and rotation around the longitudinal direction. The mass and stiffness matrices of each element are expressed...

...Piotr Chrostowski, PhD, Eng; Wladyslaw Koc, PhD, DSc, Eng; Katarzyna Palikowska, PhD, Eng The paper presents an analysis of the elongation of transition curves in relation to railway track alignment correction and modernisation. The analysis is based on numerical computations for a wide range...

...Javad Sadeghi, PhD; Jabbar-Ali Zakeri, PhD; Ali Reza Tolou Kian, MEng Railway track behaviour with unsupported prestressed sleepers has been investigated in the literature. However, some of the important factors – such as prestressing forces, variations of the sleeper cross-section along its length...

...Jingmang Xu, PhD; Ping Wang, PhD; Boyang An, MEng; Xiaochuan Ma, BEng; Rong Chen, PhD The objectives of this study were to investigate the impact response of ballastless railway tracks and to study the feasibility of using the impact-echo method for the detection of typical damage to ballastless...

...Francisco Duarte, MSc; Adelino Ferreira, PhD With the growing need for alternative energy sources, research into energy harvesting technologies has increased considerably in recent years. The particular case of energy harvesting on railway tracks is a very recent area of research. This paper deals...

... are discussed in the context of wider sustainability issues. energy railway tracks sustainability In recent years, reductions in both greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy consumption have become increasingly desirable. This has been partially driven by concerns about climate change...