Optimizing Components in the Rail Support System for Dynamic Vibration Absorption and Pass-By Noise Reduction

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• The rail pad stiffness is central in the conflict of interest between reducing airborne noise or track loads. Slab tracks typically have a low rail pad stiffness. This study explores two-stage elastic rail supports for slab tracks as a means to reduce noise while not increasing the track loads and hence ground vibrations. In a time-domain simulation, track forces and noise radiation are compared for several setups with parametrized rail support components. The results show that (I) the rail pad stiffness is the major lever for adjusting the radiated sound power, (II) the lower stiffness is important for adjusting the rolling contact forces and load on the track components, and (III) that optimizing for a lower sound power generally produces higher rolling contact forces.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Teknisk mekanik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Applied Mechanics (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Beräkningsmatematik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Computational Mathematics (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Farkostteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Vehicle Engineering (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Strömningsmekanik och akustik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Slab track

2.5D

Discrete coupling

Waveguide FE

Moving Green's functions

Two-stage elastic support

Wavenumber BE

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