Railway critical speed assessment: A simple experimental-analytical approach

Alves Costa, 2018, Soil shakedown analysis of slab railway tracks: numerical approach and parametric study, Transport. Geotechnics, 16, 85, 10.1016/j.trgeo.2018.07.004 Colaço, 2015, Dynamic ground stress‐path evolution due to the railway traffic: a parametric study, Rev Int Métodos Numéricos Cálculo Diseño Ing, 31, 120, 10.1016/j.rimni.2014.02.001 Madshus, 2004, Geodynamic challenges in high speed railway projects, 192 Alves Costa, 2015, Critical speed of railway tracks. Detailed and simplified approaches, Transport. Geotechnics, 2, 30, 10.1016/j.trgeo.2014.09.003 Madshus, 2000, High-speed railway lines on soft ground: dynamic behaviour at critical train speed, J Sound Vib, 231, 689, 10.1006/jsvi.1999.2647 Karlstrom, 2006, An analytical model for train-induced ground vibrations from trains, J Sound Vib, 292, 221, 10.1016/j.jsv.2005.07.041 Kaynia, 2000, Ground vibrations from high-speed trains: prediction and countermeasure, J Geotech Geoenviron Eng, 126, 531, 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(2000)126:6(531) Hall, 2003, Simulations and analyses of train-induced ground vibrations in finite element models, Soil Dynam Earthq Eng, 23, 403, 10.1016/S0267-7261(02)00209-9 Takemiya, 2003, Simulation of track–ground vibrations due to a high-speed train: the case of X-2000 at Ledsgard, J Sound Vib, 261, 503, 10.1016/S0022-460X(02)01007-6 Alves Costa, 2010, Influence of soil non-linearity on the dynamic response of high-speed railway tracks, Soil Dynam Earthq Eng, 30, 221, 10.1016/j.soildyn.2009.11.002 Sayeed, 2016, Three-dimensional numerical modelling of ballasted railway track foundations for high-speed trains with special reference to critical speed, Transport. Geotechnics, 6, 55, 10.1016/j.trgeo.2016.01.003 Hu, 2019, Investigation into the critical speed of ballastless track, Transport. Geotechnics, 18, 142, 10.1016/j.trgeo.2018.12.004 Sheng, 2004, A theoretical study on the influence of the track on train-induced ground vibration, J Sound Vib, 272, 909, 10.1016/S0022-460X(03)00781-8 Norén-Cosgriff, 2018, A new method for estimation of critical speed for railway tracks on soft ground, Int J Rail Ther, 6, 203 Shih, 2018, Analysis of resonance effect for a railway track on a layered ground, Transport. Geotechnics, 16, 51, 10.1016/j.trgeo.2018.07.001 Thompson, 2018, A comparison of the noise and vibration performance of slab and ballasted designs Dong, 2018, The stiffening of soft soils on railway lines, Transport. Geotechnics, 17, 178, 10.1016/j.trgeo.2018.09.004 Yang, 2001, A 2.5D finite/infinite element approach for modelling visco-elastic body subjected to moving loads, Int J Numer Methods Eng, 51, 1317, 10.1002/nme.208 Sheng, 2005, Responses of infinite periodic structures to moving or stationary harmonic loads, J Sound Vib, 282, 125, 10.1016/j.jsv.2004.02.050 Lopes, 2013, Numerical modeling of vibrations induced in tunnels: a 2.5D FEM-PML approach, 133 Gupta, 2007, A comparison of two numerical models for the prediction of vibrations from underground railway traffic, Soil Dynam Earthq Eng, 27, 608, 10.1016/j.soildyn.2006.12.007 François, 2012, A two-and-a-half-dimensional displacement-based PML for elastodynamic wave propagation, Int J Numer Methods Eng, 90, 819, 10.1002/nme.3344 François, 2010, A 2.5D coupled FE–BE methodology for the dynamic interaction between longitudinally invariant structures and a layered halfspace, Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng, 199, 1536, 10.1016/j.cma.2010.01.001 Amado Mendes, 2015, 2.5D MFS-FEM model for the prediction of vibrations due to underground railway traffic, Eng Struct, 104, 141, 10.1016/j.engstruct.2015.09.013 Alves Costa, 2012, Track-ground vibrations induced by railway traffic: in-situ measurements and validation of a 2.5D FEM-BEM model, Soil Dynam Earthq Eng, 32, 111, 10.1016/j.soildyn.2011.09.002 Colaço, 2018, Geotechnical challenges in very high speed railway tracks. The numerical modelling of critical speed issues Mezher, 2016, Railway critical velocity – analytical prediction and analysis, Transport. Geotechnics, 6, 84, 10.1016/j.trgeo.2015.09.002 Alves Costa, 2015, Critical speed of railway tracks. Detailed and simplified approaches, Transport. Geotechnics, 2, 30, 10.1016/j.trgeo.2014.09.003 Soares, 2018, Assessment of railway critical speed (in Portuguese) Dong, 2019, Non-linear soil behaviour on high speed rail lines, Comput Geotech, 112, 302, 10.1016/j.compgeo.2019.03.028 Badsar, 2010, Determination of the material damping ratio in the soil from SASW tests using the half-power bandwidth method, Geophys J Int, 182, 1493, 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04690.x Forbriger, 2003, Inversion of shallow-seismic wavefields: I. Wavefield transformation, Geophys J Int, 153, 719, 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01929.x dos Santos, 2016, Experimental analysis of track-ground vibrations on a stretch of the Portuguese railway network, Soil Dynam Earthq Eng, 90, 358, 10.1016/j.soildyn.2016.09.003