PREDICTION OF VIBRATIONS AND STRUCTURE-BORNE NOISE FROM RAILWAYS

In Denmark - as well as in the rest of Scandinavia - no official code has yet been released for prediction of perceptible vibrations and structure-borne noise transmitted from railway lines. Therefore, as part of the planning of a new 64 km high-speed railway line in the Copenhagen area, a prediction model developed by Ingemansson Technology was adapted in order to predict the number of residences influenced by vibrations and structure-borne noise. The primary elements in the methodology were: (1) A semi-analytical model based on literature and experience, covering parameters such as train speed, track type and building construction; (2) Source strength measurements covering passenger trains at 200 km/h and freight trains at typical speeds; (3) Transmission measurements from the track side to the inside of typical residences; and (4) A systematic procedure to enumerate the influenced residences along the track, based on a national registration database of buildings. This paper covers one of the derived problems involved in interpreting the uncertainty of the results. For the covering abstract see IRRD E104312.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Noise Control Engineering

  Iowa State University, 210 Marston Hall
  Ames, IA  United States  50011-2153
• Authors:
  • CRONE, A
  • ASTRUP, T
  • FINNE, P
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNOISE 99 - THE 1999 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON NOISE CONTROL ENGINEERING
  • Location: FORT LAUDERDALE FLORIDA, United States
  • Date: 1999-12-6 to 1999-12-8
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 1839-48
• Serial:
  • Volume: 3

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Forecasting; Mathematical models; Noise; Railroad tracks; Structures; Vibration
• ITRD Terms: 3352: Building (structure); 132: Forecast; 6473: Mathematical model; 2492: Noise; 5558: Vibration
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Environment; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00790221
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-9622072-3-3
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Apr 11 2000 12:00AM