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Noise and Vibration Mitigation for Rail Transportation Systems

Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Railway Noise, Munich, Germany, 4 - 8 September 2007

  • Contains the state of the art in railway noise research

Part of the book series: Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design (NNFM, volume 99)

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Table of contents (64 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Session 1: High Speed Trains (I)

    1. Environmental Noise Reduction of Tokaido Shinkansen and Future Prospect

      • H. Kanda, H. Tsuda, K. Ichikawa, S. Yoshida
      Pages 1-8
    2. Distortion of Compression Wave Propagating through Shinkansen Tunnel

      • T. Miyachi, T. Fukuda, M. Iida, T. Maeda, S. Ozawa
      Pages 9-18
    3. The Influence of the Train Speed on Vibrations Due to High Speed Trains

      • G. Lombaert, G. Degrande, J. Bekaert
      Pages 19-25
    4. Wind Tunnel Tests on the Control of Aeroacoustic Noise from High Speed Train

      • N. Yamazaki, T. Takaishi, M. Toyooka, K. Nagakura, A. Sagawa, H. Yano
      Pages 33-39
  3. Session 2: High Speed Trains (II)

    1. High Speed Railway Noise: Assessment of Mitigation Measures

      • F. Létourneaux, J. F. Cordier, F. Poisson, N. Douarche
      Pages 56-62
    2. Noise Measurement Results of Shinkansen High-Speed Test Train (FASTECH360S,Z)

      • Y. Wakabayashi, T. Kurita, H. Yamada, M. Horiuchi
      Pages 63-70
    3. Noise Sources for High Speed Trains: A Review of Results in the TGV Case

      • F. Poisson, P. E. Gautier, F. Letourneaux
      Pages 71-77
  4. Session 3: Ground Borne Vibrations (I)

    1. Floating Slab Track above Ground for Turnouts in Tram Lines

      • H. -G. Wagner, A. Herrmann
      Pages 86-93
    2. Experimental Validation of a Numerical Model for Subway Induced Vibrations

      • S. Gupta, G. Degrande, G. Lombaert
      Pages 108-114
    3. A Numerical Model for Re-radiated Noise in Buildings from Underground Railways

      • P. Fiala, S. Gupta, G. Degrande, F. Augusztinovicz
      Pages 115-121
  5. Session 4: Ground Borne Vibrations (II)

    1. Using the PiP Model for Fast Calculation of Vibration from a Railway Tunnel in a Multi-layered Half-Space

      • M. F. M. Hussein, H. E. M. Hunt, L. Rikse, S. Gupta, G. Degrande, J. P. Talbot et al.
      Pages 136-142

About this book

This book contains the presentations given during the 9th International Workshop on Railway Noise (IWRN9) which took place in Munich/Feldafing, Germany, on 4th to 8th September 2007. This workshop was organised by the Acoustics and Vibration Department of DB Systemtechnik, the technical engineering office of Deutsche Bahn AG. More than 120 participants from 17 countries followed the invitation to the wo- shop. This great response showed the continuing interest in an important topic of railway technology and offered the opportunity to present the recent results of intense worldwide activities to the international community of railway noise and vibration experts and to share knowledge as well as experience. Because an efficient transportation network is indispensable to handle the general mobility increase and road networks have reached their socio-ecological limits, the railway network is to be strengthened. For example the European Commission has given distinct political signals to get more passengers onto the railways. This policy represents a clear challenge for the next few decades not only for European railway companies: the considerable increase in mobility will lead to a doubling of the railway traffic volume within the next 10 to 20 years. To reduce the environmental impact, the Directive on the Assessment and M- agement of Environmental Noise has been put into force in Europe, aiming at avo- ing, preventing or reducing harmful effects of environmental noise on human health.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"This book is a collection of 64 papers that were presented at the 9th International Workshop on Railway Noise (IWRN). … This book is a valuable reference for anyone involved in noise and vibration studies for rail systems. … As a summary, this volume is a book worth having as a good overview of rail noise and vibration problems worldwide. Recommended." (Hugh Saurenman, Noise Control Engineering Journal, Vol. 57 (1), 2009)

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Noise and Vibration Mitigation for Rail Transportation Systems

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Railway Noise, Munich, Germany, 4 - 8 September 2007

  • Editors: Burkhard Schulte-Werning, David Thompson, Pierre-Etienne Gautier, Carl Hanson, Brian Hemsworth, James Nelson, Tatsuo Maeda, Paul Vos

  • Series Title: Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74893-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-74892-2Published: 15 May 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09430-9Published: 18 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-74893-9Published: 10 April 2008

  • Series ISSN: 1612-2909

  • Series E-ISSN: 1860-0824

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 464

  • Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Computational Intelligence

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