posted on 2016-10-13, 09:38authored byAbdelhalim Azbaid El Ouahabi, Victor V. Krylov
Several types of seismic barriers have been proposed in the past to protect buildings from traffic-induced ground vibrations, mainly from propagating Rayleigh surface waves. In many cases the developers are forced to use direct experimental measurements on real size seismic barriers at frequencies typical for traffic-induced ground vibrations, i.e. at 10-100 Hz. As an alternative and much less expensive approach, a reduced-scale experimental modelling using ultrasonic Rayleigh wave propagation over very small-scale replicas of real seismic barriers is considered in the present work. Rayleigh wave pulses with the central frequency of 1 MHz have been used, which corresponds to the value of scaling factor about 1:1000. Propagation over three types of seismic barriers was investigated: 1) arrays of periodic vertical holes, 2) Combinations of periodically positioned trenches, including a single trench, and 3) statistically rough surfaces. The results of the measurements of transmission and reflection coefficients are presented.
Funding
The research reported here has been supported by EPSRC grant EP/K038214/1.
History
School
Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department
Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Published in
27th International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, 'ISMA 2016'
Proceedings of the ISMA 2016
Pages
1829 - 1842
Citation
AZBAID EL OUAHABI, A. and KRYLOV, V.V., 2016. Reduced-scale ultrasonic modelling of Rayleigh wave transmission over seismic barriers. Presented at the 27th International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, (ISMA 2016), Leuven, Belgium, 19th-21st Sept., pp. 1829-1842.
Publisher
KU Leuven
Version
AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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