Study on Inspection Method for Railway Existing Retaining Walls using Vibration Testing

In Japan, there are many old existing railway structures. Therefore, development of proper maintenance and inspection methodologies are required. Current inspection method on existing retaining structures is visual inspection, while it is difficult to evaluate a structural health of the retaining walls quantitatively. Based on the background above, a series of model test on retaining wall is carried out so as to develop inspection method for railway existing retaining walls. In the series of the model test, a set of vibration test using newly developed small scale exciter was also conducted. It was found from the series of model test that the vibration test was effective in evaluating the vibration characteristics of the retaining walls, which was affected by structural health of the retaining wall. This result indicated that the small scale vibration test could be applicable to evaluate the structural health of the existing retaining structures.

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  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Taylor and Francis.
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• Authors:
  • Nakajima, S
  • Shinoda, M
  • Abe, K
  • Mai, T
  • Ehara, T
• Conference:
  • 2nd International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG)
  • Location: Hokkaido , Japan
  • Date: 2012-9-10 to 2012-9-12
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 879-884
• Monograph Title: Advances in Transportation Geotechnics II

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Inspection; Maintenance of way; Railroads; Retaining walls; Structural health monitoring; Vibration tests
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Maintenance and Preservation; Railroads; I60: Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01473396
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780415621359
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 21 2013 9:11AM