THE PREDICTION OF NOISE AND VIBRATION FROM UNDERGROUND RAILWAY LINES. INTERNOISE 87. NOISE CONTROL IN INDUSTRY. PROCEEDINGS 1987 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NOISE CONTROL ENGINEERING, BEIJING, CHINA 15-17 SEPTEMBER 1987

The solution of environmental problems in designing urban railway systems requires some knowledge of system identification and methods for testing the dynamic properties of vibration-isolating track component. This paper describes work during the last seven years aiming to develop a relatively simple method of predicting noise and vibration and to investigate the effectiveness of several low cost vibration-isolating track designs. The noise and vibration level in a building is here estimated as the sum of the rail vibration velocity level, the track transmission loss, the tunnel transmission loss, the ground transmission loss, and the building transmission loss. There are brief discussions about how to calculate their values. Comparisons between measured and calculated values of rail vibration velocity level, track transmission loss, and building transmission loss are shown in graphs. (TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  Acoustical Society of China

  PO Box 2712
  Beijing,   China 
• Authors:
  • Melke, J
• Publication Date: 1987

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 819-822
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Acoustical Society of China
  • Publisher: Acoustical Society of China

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Building; Calculation; Conferences; Electric insulating materials; Forecasting; Insulating materials; Measurement; Noise; Railroad tracks; Railroad trains; Speed; Subways; Vibration
• ITRD Terms: 3352: Building (structure); 6464: Calculation; 8525: Conference; 132: Forecast; 6914: Insulation; 6136: Measurement; 1062: Railway track; 6748: Sound; 5408: Speed; 1268: Train; 1191: Underground railway; 5558: Vibration
• Subject Areas: Construction; Environment; Public Transportation; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00493474
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 1990 12:00AM