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Full-scale performances of the slab track subgrade filled with basalt fiber-reinforced foamed concrete. 玄武岩纤维增强泡沫混凝土板式轨道路基全尺寸性能研究。

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Railway Engineering Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-10 DOI: 10.1007/s40534-024-00363-3

Zhichao Huang, Qian Su, Wenhui Zhao, Zongyu Zhang, Junjie Huang, Sakdirat Kaewunruen

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CFD-DEM modelling of particle entrainment in wheel-rail interface: a parametric study on particle characteristics. 轮轨界面颗粒夹带的CFD-DEM建模：颗粒特性的参数化研究。

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Railway Engineering Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1007/s40534-024-00365-1

Sadaf Maramizonouz, Sadegh Nadimi, William Skipper, Roger Lewis

{"title":"CFD-DEM modelling of particle entrainment in wheel-rail interface: a parametric study on particle characteristics.","authors":"Sadaf Maramizonouz, Sadegh Nadimi, William Skipper, Roger Lewis","doi":"10.1007/s40534-024-00365-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40534-024-00365-1","url":null,"abstract":"To mitigate and alleviate low wheel-rail adhesion, a train-borne system is utilised to deposit sand particles into the wheel-rail interface via a jet of compressed air in a process called rail-sanding. Britain Rail Safety and Standards Board introduced guidelines on the sand particles' shape, size, and uniformity which needs to be adhered to for rail-sanding. To further investigate these guidelines and help improve them, this research presents a parametric study on the particle characteristics that affect the rail-sanding process including density, size and size distribution, coefficient of uniformity, and shape, utilising a coupled computational fluid dynamics-discrete element method (CFD-DEM) model. The efficiency of rail-sanding is estimated for each case study and compared to the benchmark to optimise the sand characteristics for rail-sanding. It is concluded that particle size distribution (within the accepted range) has an insignificant effect on the efficiency while increasing particle size or the coefficient of uniformity decreases the efficiency. Particle shape is shown to highly affect the efficiency for flat, compact and elongated particles compared to the spherical shape. The current numerical model is capable of accurately predicting the trends in the efficiency compared to the actual values obtained from full-scale experiments.","PeriodicalId":41270,"journal":{"name":"Railway Engineering Science","volume":"33 2","pages":"259-270"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12053867/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144054227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Shear strength characteristics of mixing slag-stone ballast reinforcement with tire geo-scrap using large-scale direct shear tests 利用大规模直接剪切试验分析矿渣石碴加固材料与轮胎土工碎屑混合后的剪切强度特性

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Railway Engineering Science Pub Date : 2024-09-14 DOI: 10.1007/s40534-024-00356-2

Morteza Esmaeili, Hamidreza Heydari, Maziar Mokhtari, Sara Darvishi

{"title":"Shear strength characteristics of mixing slag-stone ballast reinforcement with tire geo-scrap using large-scale direct shear tests","authors":"Morteza Esmaeili, Hamidreza Heydari, Maziar Mokhtari, Sara Darvishi","doi":"10.1007/s40534-024-00356-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40534-024-00356-2","url":null,"abstract":"Utilizing the ballast layer with more durable and stable characteristics can help avoid significant expenses due to decreased maintenance efforts. Strengthening the ballast layer with different types of reinforcements or substituting the stone aggregates with the appropriate granular materials could potentially help to achieve this goal by reducing the ballast deterioration. One of the exquisite and most effective solutions to eliminate these challenges is to use waste materials such as steel slag aggregates and useless tires. Utilizing these waste materials in the ballasted railway track will contribute to sustainable development, an eco-friendly system, and green infrastructure. So in a state-of-the-art insightful, the ballast aggregates, including a mixture of steel slag and stone aggregates, are reinforced with a novel kind of geo-grid made of waste tire strips known as geo-scraps. This laboratory research tried to explain the shear strength behavior of the introduced mixing slag-stone ballast reinforced with tire geo-scrap. To achieve this goal, a series of large-scale direct shear tests were performed on the ballast which is reinforced by tire geo-scrap and included various combinations of slag and stone aggregates. The concluded results indicate that the optimal mixing ratio is attained by a combination of 75% slag and 25% stone aggregates which is reinforced by tire geo-scrap at a placing level of 120 mm. In this case, the shear strength‌, internal friction angle, vertical displacement, and dilatancy angle of stone–slag ballast reinforced with geo-scraps exhibited average changes of + 28%, + 9%, − 28%, and − 15%, respectively.","PeriodicalId":41270,"journal":{"name":"Railway Engineering Science","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142261736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Innovative and cost-effective rail track construction using recycled rubber 使用再生橡胶建造轨道，创新且经济高效

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Railway Engineering Science Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1007/s40534-024-00352-6

Buddhima Indraratna, Yujie Qi, Trung Ngo, Rakesh Malisetty, Chathuri Kulappu Arachchige

{"title":"Innovative and cost-effective rail track construction using recycled rubber","authors":"Buddhima Indraratna, Yujie Qi, Trung Ngo, Rakesh Malisetty, Chathuri Kulappu Arachchige","doi":"10.1007/s40534-024-00352-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40534-024-00352-6","url":null,"abstract":"Facing the high demand for faster and heavier freight trains in Australia, researchers and practitioners are endeavouring to develop more innovative and resilient ballasted tracks. In recent years, many studies have been conducted by the researchers from Transport Research Centre at the University of Technology Sydney (TRC-UTS) to examine the feasibility of incorporating recycled tyre/rubber into rail tracks. This paper reviews three innovative applications using recycled rubber products such as (1) a synthetic energy-absorbing layer for railway subballast using a composite of rubber crumbs and mining by-products, (2) using rubber intermixed ballast stratum to replace conventional ballast, and (3) installing recycled rubber mat to mitigate ballast degradation under the impact loading. Comprehensive laboratory and field tests as well as numerical modelling have been conducted to examine the performance of rail tracks incorporating these innovative inclusions. The laboratory and field test results and numerical modelling reveal that incorporating these rubber products could increase the energy-absorbing capacity of the track, and mitigate the ballast breakage and settlement significantly, hence increasing the track stability. The research outcomes will facilitate a better understanding of the performance of ballast tracks incorporating these resilient waste tyre materials while promoting more economical and environmentally sustainable tracks for greater passenger comfort and increased safety.","PeriodicalId":41270,"journal":{"name":"Railway Engineering Science","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142222066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Drive-by damage detection methodology for high-speed railway bridges using sparse autoencoders 使用稀疏自动编码器的高速铁路桥梁驱动损坏检测方法

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Railway Engineering Science Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1007/s40534-024-00347-3

Edson Florentino de Souza, Cássio Bragança, Diogo Ribeiro, Túlio Nogueira Bittencourt, Hermes Carvalho

{"title":"Drive-by damage detection methodology for high-speed railway bridges using sparse autoencoders","authors":"Edson Florentino de Souza, Cássio Bragança, Diogo Ribeiro, Túlio Nogueira Bittencourt, Hermes Carvalho","doi":"10.1007/s40534-024-00347-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40534-024-00347-3","url":null,"abstract":"High-speed railway bridges are essential components of any railway transportation system that should keep adequate levels of serviceability and safety. In this context, drive-by methodologies have emerged as a feasible and cost-effective monitoring solution for detecting damage on railway bridges while minimizing train operation interruptions. Moreover, integrating advanced sensor technologies and machine learning algorithms has significantly enhanced structural health monitoring (SHM) for bridges. Despite being increasingly used in traditional SHM applications, studies using autoencoders within drive-by methodologies are rare, especially in the railway field. This study presents a novel approach for drive-by damage detection in HSR bridges. The methodology relies on acceleration records collected from multiple bridge crossings by an operational train equipped with onboard sensors. Log-Mel spectrogram features derived from the acceleration records are used together with sparse autoencoders for computing statistical distribution-based damage indexes. Numerical simulations were performed on a 3D vehicle–track–bridge interaction system model implemented in Matlab to evaluate the robustness and effectiveness of the proposed approach, considering several damage scenarios, vehicle speeds, and environmental and operational variations, such as multiple track irregularities and varying measurement noise. The results show that the proposed approach can successfully detect damages, as well as characterize their severity, especially for very early-stage damages. This demonstrates the high potential of applying Mel-frequency damage-sensitive features associated with machine learning algorithms in the drive-by condition assessment of high-speed railway bridges.","PeriodicalId":41270,"journal":{"name":"Railway Engineering Science","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142222067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Carbody sway behaviour of railway vehicles due to track irregularity from rail alternate side wear 轨道交替侧磨损造成轨道不规则引起的铁路车辆车体摇摆行为

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Railway Engineering Science Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1007/s40534-024-00354-4

Lai Wei, Jing Zeng, Ren Luo, Feng Gan, Jijun Gong, Jun Jiang

{"title":"Carbody sway behaviour of railway vehicles due to track irregularity from rail alternate side wear","authors":"Lai Wei, Jing Zeng, Ren Luo, Feng Gan, Jijun Gong, Jun Jiang","doi":"10.1007/s40534-024-00354-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40534-024-00354-4","url":null,"abstract":"Track irregularity from rail alternate side wear is manifested as uneven rail wear waveforms alternating in the left and right rails with equal intervals, which will cause carbody sway behaviour of railway vehicles and greatly influences the passenger comfort. In this work, the carbody sway behaviour and mechanism due to track irregularity from rail alternate side wear and possible solutions to this issue were studied by the field testing and numerical calculation approaches. First, the carbody sway of an urban rail transit train is introduced with full-scale field tests, through which the rail alternate side wear is characterized and the formatted track irregularity are presented. Then, multibody vehicle dynamic models are developed to reproduce the carbody sway behaviour induced by the track irregularity from the rail alternate side wear. The creep forces acting on the wheel and rail are preliminarily discussed to study the influence of the carbody sway on the wear of the wheel flange and the rail corner. Finally, some potential solutions, e.g. improving the damping ratio of carbody rigid mode and rail grinding, are proposed to relieve this issue. It is concluded that an increased damping ratio of the carbody mode can alleviate the carbody sway and wheel–rail interactions, while properly maintaining track conditions can improve the vehicle performance.","PeriodicalId":41270,"journal":{"name":"Railway Engineering Science","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142222147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Advancing high-speed train gearbox durability: enhanced bearing load and contact stress through transition from helical to herringbone gears 提高高速列车齿轮箱的耐久性：通过从螺旋齿轮到人字齿轮的过渡，增强轴承载荷和接触应力

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Railway Engineering Science Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1007/s40534-024-00345-5

Hao Wu, Jing Wei, Pingbo Wu, Fansong Li, Yayun Qi

{"title":"Advancing high-speed train gearbox durability: enhanced bearing load and contact stress through transition from helical to herringbone gears","authors":"Hao Wu, Jing Wei, Pingbo Wu, Fansong Li, Yayun Qi","doi":"10.1007/s40534-024-00345-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40534-024-00345-5","url":null,"abstract":"High-speed trains typically utilize helical gear transmissions, which significantly impact the bearing load capacity and fatigue service performance of the gearbox bearings. This paper focuses on the gearbox bearings, establishing dynamic models for both helical gear and herringbone gear transmissions in high-speed trains. The modeling particularly emphasizes the precision of the bearings at the gearbox’s pinion and gear wheels. Using this model, a comparative analysis is conducted on the bearing loads and contact stresses of the gearbox bearings under uniform-speed operation between the two gear transmissions. The findings reveal that the helical gear transmission generates axial forces leading to severe load imbalance on the bearings at both sides of the large gear, and this imbalance intensifies with the increase in train speed. Consequently, this results in a significant increase in contact stress on the bearings on one side. The adoption of herringbone gear transmission effectively suppresses axial forces, resolving the load imbalance issue and substantially reducing the contact stress on the originally biased side of the bearings. The study demonstrates that employing herringbone gear transmission can significantly enhance the service performance of high-speed train gearbox bearings, thereby extending their service life.","PeriodicalId":41270,"journal":{"name":"Railway Engineering Science","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141948901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Noise reduction mechanism of high-speed railway box-girder bridges installed with MTMDs on top plate 顶板安装 MTMD 的高速铁路箱梁桥的降噪机制

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Railway Engineering Science Pub Date : 2024-07-13 DOI: 10.1007/s40534-024-00339-3

Xiaoan Zhang, Xiaoyun Zhang, Jianjin Yang, Li Yang, Guangtian Shi

{"title":"Noise reduction mechanism of high-speed railway box-girder bridges installed with MTMDs on top plate","authors":"Xiaoan Zhang, Xiaoyun Zhang, Jianjin Yang, Li Yang, Guangtian Shi","doi":"10.1007/s40534-024-00339-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40534-024-00339-3","url":null,"abstract":"The issue of low-frequency structural noise radiated from high-speed railway (HSR) box-girder bridges (BGBs) is a significant challenge worldwide. Although it is known that vibrations in BGBs caused by moving trains can be reduced by installing multiple tuned mass dampers (MTMDs) on the top plate, there is limited research on the noise reduction achieved by this method. This study aims to investigate the noise reduction mechanism of BGBs installed with MTMDs on the top plate. A sound radiation prediction model for the BGB installed with MTMDs is developed, based on the vehicle–track–bridge coupled dynamics and acoustics boundary element method. After being verified by field tested results, the prediction model is employed to study the reduction of vibration and noise of BGBs caused by the MTMDs. It is found that installing MTMDs on top plate can significantly affect the vibration distribution and sound radiation law of BGBs. However, its impact on the sound radiation caused by vibrations dominated by the global modes of BGBs is minimal. The noise reduction achieved by MTMDs is mainly through changing the acoustic radiation contributions of each plate of the bridge. In the lower frequency range, the noise reduction of BGB caused by MTMDs can be more effective if the installation of MTMDs can modify the vibration frequency and distribution of the BGB to avoid the influence of small vibrations and disperse the sound radiation from each plate.","PeriodicalId":41270,"journal":{"name":"Railway Engineering Science","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141610035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Running safety assessment method of trains under seismic conditions based on the derailment risk domain 基于脱轨风险域的地震条件下列车运行安全评估方法

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Railway Engineering Science Pub Date : 2024-07-13 DOI: 10.1007/s40534-024-00335-7

Zhihui Zhu, Gaoyang Zhou, Weiqi Zheng, Wei Gong, Yongjiu Tang

{"title":"Running safety assessment method of trains under seismic conditions based on the derailment risk domain","authors":"Zhihui Zhu, Gaoyang Zhou, Weiqi Zheng, Wei Gong, Yongjiu Tang","doi":"10.1007/s40534-024-00335-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40534-024-00335-7","url":null,"abstract":"The accurate assessment of running safety during earthquakes is of significant importance for ensuring the safety of railway lines. Currently, assessment methods based on a single index suffer from issues such as misjudgment of operational safety and difficulty in evaluating operational margin, making them unsuitable for assessing train safety during earthquakes. Therefore, in order to propose an effective evaluation method for the running safety of trains during earthquakes, this study employs three indexes, namely lateral displacement of the wheel–rail contact point, wheel unloading rate, and wheel lift, to describe the lateral and vertical contact states between the wheel and rail. The corresponding evolution characteristics of the wheel–rail contact states are determined, and the derailment forms under different frequency components of seismic motion are identified through dynamic numerical simulations of the train–track coupled system under sine excitation. The variations in the wheel–rail contact states during the transition from a safe state to the critical state of derailment are analyzed, thereby constructing the evolutionary path of train derailment and seismic derailment risk domain. Lastly, the wheel–rail contact and derailment states under seismic conditions are analyzed, thus verifying the effectiveness of the evaluation method for assessing running safety under earthquakes proposed in this study. The results indicate that the assessment method based on the derailment risk domain accurately and comprehensively reflects the wheel–rail contact states under seismic conditions. It successfully determines the forms of train derailment, the risk levels of derailment, and the evolutionary paths of derailment risk.","PeriodicalId":41270,"journal":{"name":"Railway Engineering Science","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141610036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Measured dynamic load distribution within the in situ axlebox bearing of high-speed trains under polygonal wheel–rail excitation 在多边形轮轨激励下测量高速列车轮轴箱轴承内的动载荷分布

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Railway Engineering Science Pub Date : 2024-07-13 DOI: 10.1007/s40534-024-00344-6

Yu Hou, Xi Wang, Jiaqi Wei, Menghua Zhao, Wei Zhao, Huailong Shi, Chengyu Sha

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