Abstract
Attention is drawn to the fact that the recent increase in axle loads, speed and traffic volume in railway tracks, as well as concerns over passengers' riding comfort and safety have resulted in fresh challenges that are needed to be addressed. These challenges can only be successfully tackled with a more accurate modeling of the dynamic behavior of railway tracks. Although a significant amount of research involving mathematical modeling of railway track dynamics has been conducted in the last two decades, the nonlinearity of track support systems has not been given sufficient attention. This paper is concerned with the effect of nonlinearity of the support sub-layers on the dynamic responses of the railway track. To this end, a railway track model that considers the nonlinear properties of the track sub-layers is developed. Then, a field investigation into the dynamic responses of the railway track system under moving trains is conducted. The effect of the nonlinearity properties of the track support system on the track responses is investigated by comparing the results obtained by the numerical model, with or without consideration of track support nonlinearity, with those from the field tests. It is illustrated that consideration of the nonlinear properties of the track support system improves the accuracy of the calculated responses by a factor of three. It is also shown that the train axle loads and track accumulative loading have a significant effect on the nonlinearity of the track support system and, as a result, on the modeling of track responses.
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