3-D Dynamic Response of Reinforced Embankment and Track System Subjected to Moving Traffic Load
Liu Feiyu and Yang Fengyun
DOI:10.11835/j.issn.1674-4764.2013.04.016
Received ,Revised , Accepted , Available online July 01, 2015
Volume ,2013,Pages 101-108
- Abstract
An analytic method was used to study the dynamic response of track system on reinforced embankment subjected to moving traffic load. Based on Biot's dynamic poro-elastic theory, dynamic analytical model of track system and reinforced embankment was established. The rails were described as an infinitely long Euler beam subjected to moving axle loads and sleepers were represented by continuous mass. Reinforced embankment embedded between track system and poro-elastic subsoil was modeled as a transversely isotropic layer. Subsoil was fully saturated poroelastic medium governed by the Biot's theory. Using the Fourier transform, the governing equations were then solved analytically in the frequency-wave-number domain. The time domain responses were obtained by the inverse Fourier transform computation. The influences of the train velocity, thickness of reinforced layer, load amplitude and reinforcement's ratio on the displacement responses of rails were carefully investigated. Computed results show that the vertical displacement of rails increases with the increase of load speed initially and decreases later. The displacement of rails with reinforced embankment is less than the ones without reinforced embankment. The displacement of rails increases with the increase of load amplitude and decreases with the increase of reinforcement's ratio.