Railway ground vibration and mitigation measures: benchmarking of best practices

S Ouakka, O Verlinden, G Kouroussis - Railway Engineering Science, 2022 - Springer
Vibration and noise aspects play a relevant role in the lifetime and comfort of urban areas
and their residents. Among the different sources, the one coming from the rail transit system …

Modelling, simulation and evaluation of ground vibration caused by rail vehicles

DJ Thompson, G Kouroussis… - Vehicle System …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
There is a great need to develop rail networks over long distances and within cities as more
sustainable transport options. However, noise and vibration are seen as a negative …

Performance of rubber-concrete composite periodic barriers applied in attenuating ground vibrations induced by metro trains

Z Li, M Ma, K Liu, B Jiang - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, the use of periodic vibration isolation barriers (PVIBs) has emerged as a
significant method for attenuating environmental vibrations along the propagation path …

Seismic metamaterial barriers for ground vibration mitigation in railways considering the train-track-soil dynamic interactions

T Li, Q Su, S Kaewunruen - Construction and Building Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of high speed rail system, ground vibration mitigation solutions
are desperately needed. Based on the concepts of phononic crystals, seismic metamaterial …

Laboratory and numerical investigation of machine foundations reinforced with geogrids and geocells

H Venkateswarlu, KN Ujjawal, A Hegde - Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 2018 - Elsevier
The manuscript describes the results of large scale field tests and numerical studies
conducted on geosynthetics reinforced soil beds supporting model machine foundation. A …

Mitigation of railway-induced vibrations by using periodic wave impeding barriers

C He, S Zhou, P Guo - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
Railway-induced vibrations can cause significant environmental issues. This paper
proposes an efficient analytical method to investigate the mitigation of railway-induced …

Feasibility of ambient vibration screening by periodic geofoam-filled trenches

X Pu, Z Shi, H **ang - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Single in-filled trench barriers have been widely investigated to mitigate ground vibrations.
However, investigations on the application of multiple rows of in-filled trenches are very …

Periodic pile barriers for Rayleigh wave isolation in a poroelastic half-space

X Pu, Z Shi - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
A detailed investigation is carried out to investigate the use of periodic piles as wave barriers
for Rayleigh wave isolation from the perspective of periodic theory in solid state physics …

Broadband surface wave attenuation in periodic trench barriers

X Pu, Z Shi - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2020 - Elsevier
Surface wave manipulation in periodic trench barriers based on real band structures has its
inherent limitations. This work revisits this problem from the perspective of complex band …

Metamaterial approach to mitigate ground‐borne vibrations induced by moving trains

W Liu, S Yan, L Wu, J Zhou - Applied Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ground‐borne vibration generated by moving trains has become an important
environmental problem. Research on mitigation measures has been uninterrupted for …