COMPUTER SIMULATION PREDICTION OF GROUND VIBRATION INDUCED BY HIGH-SPEED TRAIN RUNNING

CFD Simulation of High-speed Trains: Train-induced Wind Conditions on Trackside Installations

Speed is the created air flow as well as slipstream effects as the trains move. These effects can have some level of impact on fuel and energy efficiency  of  the  train,  but  their  other  important  outcome  is  the emergence of turbulent flows at higher speeds which can cause aerodynamic  drag  forces  followed  by  noise  and  vibration.  Thus, slipstream effects have significant importanc...

Modelling of ground-borne vibration when the train speed approaches the critical speed

When trains run on soft ground, large deflections of the track and vibration of the ground can occur when the train speed approaches the speed of Rayleigh waves in the ground. Modelling is helpful to understand and mitigate such critical velocity effects. Here, a three-dimensional time-domain model of a load moving on a track and ground has been developed in the finite element software ABAQUS. ...

Assessment of Track-ground Coupled Vibration Induced by High-speed Trains

As high-speed trains operate in more and more countries and their maximum speed increases, the vibration induced by the train has become an important issue. The dynamic coupling between the vehicle, track and ground has to be assessed for its effects on safety, stability and maintenance costs. A particular issue, especially for soft soils, is the critical speed at which the train reaches the wa...

Simulation of Ground Vibration on a Massively Data-Parallel Computer

Flow simulation and aerodynamic noise prediction for a high-speed train wheelset

Aerodynamic noise becomes significant for high-speed trains and its prediction in an industrial context is hard to achieve. The aerodynamic and aeroacoustic behaviour of the flow past a highspeed train wheelset, one of the main components of a bogie, are investigated at a scale 1:10 using a two-stage hybrid method of computational fluid dynamics and acoustic analogy. The near-field unsteady flo...