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Ultrasonic modelling of open trenches used as seismic barriers against traffic-induced ground vibrations

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posted on 2018-01-16, 11:46 authored by Abdelhalim Azbaid El Ouahabi, Victor V. Krylov
Various types of seismic barriers are used in practice to protect buildings from traffic-induced ground vibrations, mainly from propagating Rayleigh surface waves. One of the widely used types of seismic barriers are open trenches. Experimental investigations of real size trenches at frequencies typical for traffic-induced ground vibrations, i.e. at 10-100 Hz, are costly and time consuming. In the present work, an alternative and much less expensive approach is proposed - a reduced-scale experimental modelling using ultrasonic Rayleigh wave propagation over very small-scale replicas of real trenches. Experimental investigations of propagation of Rayleigh wave pulses with the central frequency of 1 MHz, which corresponds to the value of scaling factor of about 1:1000, have been carried out for a single trench and for periodic combinations of trenches. The results of the measurements of transmission and reflection coefficients of Rayleigh waves for different incident angles show that, for typical values of the parameters used in the experiments, periodic combinations of trenches represent efficient seismic barriers against traffic-induced ground vibrations.

Funding

The research reported here has been supported by the EPSRC grant EP/K038214/1.

History

School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Published in

Noise Theory and Practice

Volume

3

Issue

4

Pages

5 - 13

Citation

AZBAID EL OUAHABI, A. and KRYLOV, V.V., 2017. Ultrasonic modelling of open trenches used as seismic barriers against traffic-induced ground vibrations. Noise Theory and Practice, 3(4), pp. 5-13.

Publisher

Acoustics Design Institute

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

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

2017-12-12

Publication date

2017

Notes

This paper was published in the open access journal Noise Theory and Practice available at http://www.noisetp.com/en/home/.

ISSN

2412-8627

Language

  • en

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