Modelling of railway bridge-vehicle interaction on high speed tracks

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1997

Authors

Raimundo Delgado (Author) FEUP; Sara Santos Cruz (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Computers and Structures

Vol. 63

Pages: 511-523

ISSN: 0045-7949

Publisher: Elsevier

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 37 Citations

Scopus - 67 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Civil engineering

CORDIS: Physical sciences > Mathematics > Mathematical analysis ; Technological sciences > Engineering > Civil engineering > Structural engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-001-BG3

DOI: 10.1016/s0045-7949(96)00360-4

Abstract (EN): Dynamic behaviour is essential in the analysis of railway bridges and trains namely on high speed tracks. The action of railway traffic on bridges is performed by two different methodologies: in the first the train is considered as a set of moving masses, being the effects of the moving forces and masses implied; in the second both the structural behaviour of the train and the interaction with the bridge are involved. Based on a real case, the effect of some parameters are analysed in this paper: characteristics of stiffness and mass of the bridge, stiffness of the train, bridge span and track irregularities. The main aim is to evidence the importance of these parameters in order to investigate the structural behaviour of the bridge and the comfort at the train.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 13