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Dynamic behavior of steel post/wood panel railway noise barriers under aerodynamic loads induced by high-speed trains
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Structural and Fire Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2668-1329
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Structural and Fire Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0089-8140
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Structural and Fire Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3548-6082
Division of Structural Engineering and Bridges, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Brinellvagen 23, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden.
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2025 (English)In: Railway Engineering Science, ISSN 2662-4745Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

Railway noise barriers are an essential piece of infrastructure for reducing noise propagation. However, these barriers experience aerodynamic loads generated by high-speed trains, leading to dynamic effects that may compromise their fatigue capacity. The most common structural design for railway noise barriers consists of vertical configurations of posts and panels. However, there have been few dynamic analyses of steel post/wood panel noise barriers under train-induced aerodynamic loads. This study used dynamic finite element analysis to assess the dynamic behavior of such noise barriers. Analysis of a 40-m-long noise barrier model and a triangular simplified load model, the latter of which effectively represented the detailed aerodynamic load, were first used to establish the model and input of the moving load during dynamic simulation. Then, the effects of different parameters on the dynamic response of the noise barrier were evaluated, including the damping ratio, the profile of the steel post, the span length of the panel, the barrier height, and the train speed. Gray relational analysis indicated that barrier height exhibited the highest correlations with the dynamic responses, followed by train speed, post profile, span length, and damping ratio. A reduction in the natural frequency and an increase in the train speed result in a higher peak response and more pronounced fluctuations between the nose and tail waves. The dynamic amplification factor (DAF) was found to be related to both the natural frequency and train speed. A model was proposed showing that the DAF significantly increases as the square of the natural frequency decreases and the cube of the train speed rises.

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Springer Nature, 2025.
Keywords [en]
Aerodynamic load, Dynamic amplifcation factor, Dynamic behavior, Finite element analysis, High-speed train, Railway noise barrier
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Infrastructure Engineering
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Structural Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-112214DOI: 10.1007/s40534-025-00377-5ISI: 001448881100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105000502708OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-112214DiVA, id: diva2:1949287
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Swedish Transport Administration, BBT-2019-022Swedish Transport Administration, BBT-TRV 2024/132497
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