Train Induced Ground Vibrations - the Effect of a Rail Embankment

P-125 Summary TRAIN INDUCED GROUND VIBRATIONS: THE EFFECT OF A RAIL EMBANKMENT A. DITZEL and G. C. HERMAN Centre for Technical Geoscience Department of Applied Mathematics Delft University of Technology P.O. Box 5031 2600 GA Delft The Netherlands Trains can generate vibrations due to irregularities in the track. We have developed a method to determine the ground vibrations from a train moving over a rail embankment which is embedded in a layered ground. Displacements in the free field are obtained by numerical solution of a domain integral equation. We discuss an efficient solution method to solve this integral equation. Introduction