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Assessment of locations along the proposed HS2 Routes that are likely to experience ground vibration boom from high-speed trains

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posted on 2016-10-05, 09:05 authored by Victor V. Krylov, B. Lewis
Ground vibration boom is a physical phenomenon associated with a dramatic increase in railway-generated ground vibrations that can occur when train speeds exceed the velocity of Rayleigh waves in the supporting ground. The present paper describes the results of the preliminary assessment of the proposed HS2 routes from the point of view of possible occurrence of ground vibration boom. The analysis is based on the available geological information about the soil composition along the proposed HS2 routes and on the expected train speeds, including areas of train acceleration and deceleration between railway terminals. Rayleigh wave velocities have been calculated for all sites along the routes using the geological data and compared with the expected train speeds at the relevant locations. Using this method, several sensitive locations have been identified where ground vibration boom is likely to occur. The expected levels of ground vibration boom for some sites have been estimated.

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School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Published in

Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics

Volume

38

Issue

1

Pages

453 - 464

Citation

KRYLOV, V.V. and LEWIS, B., 2016. Assessment of locations along the proposed HS2 Routes that are likely to experience ground vibration boom from high-speed trains. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 38(1), pp. 453-464.

Publisher

The Institute of Acoustics

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-08-18

Publication date

2016

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This paper is made available online with kind permission of the publisher.

ISSN

1478-6095

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Language

  • en

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