Alternative Title
Paper No. 4.03
Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
11 Mar 1998, 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Abstract
At the railway line north of Amsterdam the substructure of the track has been reconstructed to reduce vibrations at lower frequencies. Such a measure is sought for in the western Holland area where people are annoyed by railway traffic vibrations. Over a length of 300 m a 0.45 m thick concrete slab has been installed directly under the ballast layer. The thickness of the concrete plate has been determined by numerical calculations. To be able to compare the effect of the concrete slap a existing track with heavy passenger train traffic a representative weak soil profile has been chosen for a test site, which was found at the Oosthuizen. At this test site an extensive set of vibration measurements have been conducted to determine the effect of the taken measure and to validate the used numerical procedure to predict the vibrations.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
4th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1998 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Stuit, Herke G., "Test Track Low Frequency Vibrations Reducing Measure Near Oosthuizen" (1998). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 6.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/4icchge/4icchge-session04/6
Test Track Low Frequency Vibrations Reducing Measure Near Oosthuizen
St. Louis, Missouri
At the railway line north of Amsterdam the substructure of the track has been reconstructed to reduce vibrations at lower frequencies. Such a measure is sought for in the western Holland area where people are annoyed by railway traffic vibrations. Over a length of 300 m a 0.45 m thick concrete slab has been installed directly under the ballast layer. The thickness of the concrete plate has been determined by numerical calculations. To be able to compare the effect of the concrete slap a existing track with heavy passenger train traffic a representative weak soil profile has been chosen for a test site, which was found at the Oosthuizen. At this test site an extensive set of vibration measurements have been conducted to determine the effect of the taken measure and to validate the used numerical procedure to predict the vibrations.
