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dc.creatorFernández Ruiz, Jesús
dc.creatorMedina Rodríguez, Luis
dc.date2020-12-25
dc.identifierhttps://revistadelaconstruccion.uc.cl/index.php/RDLC/article/view/rdlc.19.3.395
dc.identifier10.7764/rdlc.19.3.395-406
dc.descriptionContinuous wave barriers are mitigation measures to reduce vibrations induced by railway traffic which have been well studied in technical literature. Nevertheless, there are not many studies about discontinuous concrete wave barriers. By this reason, in this paper continuous and discontinuous concrete wave barriers are studied and compared. With this objective, two theoretical cases with discontinuous barriers have been analysed and the results have been compared with those from both continuous barriers and without barriers cases. The study has been carried out with a dynamic numerical 3D FEM model formulated in the space/time domain, which has previously been validated by authors on the Lisbon-Oporto (Portugal) railway line. The numerical results show the discontinuous barriers with a small separation between axles (less than twice the thickness of the continuous barrier) are an efficient measure in the reduction of vibrations, reaching values of insertion loss of up to 13 dB. So, these could be a very interesting alternative to continuous barriers, in order to conjugate a somewhat lower level of reduction of vibration at a considerable lower cost.en-US
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dc.languageeng
dc.publisherEscuela de Construcción Civil de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chileen-US
dc.relationhttps://revistadelaconstruccion.uc.cl/index.php/RDLC/article/view/rdlc.19.3.395/21509
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2020 Jesús Fernández Ruiz, Luis Medina Rodríguezen-US
dc.sourceRevista de la Construcción. Journal of Construction; Vol. 19 No. 3 (2020): Revista de la Construcción. Journal of Construction; 395-406en-US
dc.source0718-915X
dc.subjectrailway vibrationsen-US
dc.subjectmitigation measuresen-US
dc.subjectdiscontinuous barriersen-US
dc.subject3D dynamic numerical modelen-US
dc.subjecttime/space domainen-US
dc.titleConcrete wave barriers to mitigate ground vibrations induced by railway traffic: a three-dimensional numerical studyen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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