A Co-Simulation Strategy in the Simulation of Vehicle-Track-Ground Subdomains

Modelling a whole vehicle-track-foundation-soil system is complex and usually the problem is split into several subdomains for predicting railway-induced ground vibrations. In this way, a modelling approach (multibody simulation, finite element analysis) dedicated to each subdomain can be adopted without any numerical constraint. A limitation however occurs regarding the interaction between each subsystem which is thus neglected. For some cases, the whole modelling does not allow an accurate simulation. A solution consists on co-simulation that can be applied to re-couple the decoupled model during the time integration process. The purpose of this paper is to analyze various techniques of co-simulation by considering theoretically a monolithic model, split at different location. A TCP/IP client/server binding is used for the data transfer during the numerical integration. An application case is then presented using two different software packages: EasyDyn, an in-house multibody simulation software, for the vehicle subsystem and ABAQUS, a commercial finite element software, for the soil subsystem.

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  • https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784483886.001
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  • © 2022 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Kouroussis, Georges
  • Olivier, Bryan
  • Verlinden, Olivier
• Conference:
  • Second International Conference on Rail Transportation
  • Location: Chengdu Sichuan Province, China
  • Date: 2021-7-5 to 2021-7-6
• Publication Date: 2022-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 1 - 8
• Monograph Title: ICRT 2021: Second International Conference on Rail Transportation

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Mathematical models; Mechanical vibration; Railroad tracks; Simulation; Train track dynamics
• Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01840788
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784483886
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Mar 29 2022 9:32AM