Train-Track-Bridge Interaction for non-ballasted Railway Bridges on High-Speed Lines

• This paper presents the result from a parametric study of the dynamic response of railway bridges during train passage. A 2D coupled train-track-bridge interaction (TTBI) model is used to calculate the response from both the bridge and the vehicle.To assure traffic safety and riding comfort, Eurocode EN 1990/A2 gives a set of design limits for railway bridges on high-speed lines. The vertical bridge deck acceleration and displacement are often of main interest. For bridges with non-ballasted tracks the vertical deck acceleration is limited to 5 m/s2, simply obtained as the gravity divided by a safety factor 2, under the assumption that loss of wheel-rail contact will occur at 1g. The vertical bridge deck displacement is an implicit measure to assure riding comfort, based on a limited set of simulations carried out in the 1980ies and 1990ies.The main aim of this paper is to study the relation between the vertical bridge deck acceleration and the risk of derailment as well as the relation between the vertical deck displacement to the riding comfort. The risk of derailment is estimated both as a wheel-unloading factor based on the filtered wheel-rail contact forces or as the duration of contact loss based on the unfiltered wheel-rail contact forces.A large set of theoretical bridges are studied, all optimised to reach the design limits according to EN 1990/A2 for either vertical bridge deck acceleration or displacement. The results show that there is no risk of derailment until the deck acceleration exceeds 30 m/s2. Based on the present parametric study, it appears that the current limit for vertical deck acceleration of non-ballasted railway bridges is very conservative but that the limits for vertical deck displacement is in the correct order of magnitude. It is further concluded that the magnitude of rail irregularities is of great importance, often causing larger dynamic response in the vehicle than due to the vibration of the bridge.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Samhällsbyggnadsteknik -- Infrastrukturteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Civil Engineering -- Infrastructure Engineering (hsv//eng)

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Structural Engineering and Bridges

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