WHEEL/RAIL NOISE - PART 4: ROLLING NOISE

In this paper (part IV of a series on "wheel/rail noise") analytical formulas for predicting wheel/rail rolling noise in urban rail transit systems are developed based on the characterization of the wheel/rail dynamic system developed in part I and the roughness spectra on the running surfaces of the wheels and rails. Measured values of wheel and rail roughness spectra taken on an operating rapid transit system are used with these formulas to predict the rolling noise at the wayside. These predictions prove to agree well with published data on the wayside noise from that system. In addition, measurements of the wheel roughness spectra on a small personalized rapid transit (PRT) vehicle and the rail roughness spectra on a section of the test track for that vehicle, when used in the analytical formulas, yield predictions of the wayside noise during passage of the PRT vehicle that agree well with field measurements of that noise. /TRRL/

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• Authors:
  • REMINGTON, P J
• Publication Date: 1976-6-8

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 419-36
• Serial:
  • Journal of Sound and Vibration
  • Volume: 46
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0022-460X
  • EISSN: 1095-8568
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0022460X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Defects; Forecasting; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Noise; Noise sources; Personal rapid transit; Power spectra; Railroad facilities; Railroad tracks; Railroad wheels; Railroads; Rapid transit; Sound; Vibration; Wheels
• Old TRIS Terms: Railway; Rapid transit noise; Track irregularities; Wayside
• ITRD Terms: 6471: Analysis (math); 4120: Chalk; 8513: Classification; 5532: Compression; 1020: Container (freight); 6527: Correlation (math, stat); 5908: Density; 8036: France; 6473: Mathematical model; 5919: Modulus of elasticity; 5920: Moisture content; 5124: Quarry; 1181: Rapid transit system; 6748: Sound; 5408: Speed; 5930: Stability; 6555: Statistics; 5544: Strength (mater); 4372: Subterranean; 5558: Vibration; 6767: Wave; 1372: Wheel
• Subject Areas: Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00141505
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chausees (LCPC)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 3 1982 12:00AM