Abstract
When constructing or upgrading high-speed railway lines on soft soils, reinforcing the soil foundation becomes crucial. This not only involves small track displacements but also increases the critical speed, thereby ensuring safe and efficient regular operations. Nevertheless, existing studies on the critical speed phenomenon in high-speed railway tracks with ground reinforcement are limited, and they all assume a linear elastic behavior for both the soils and reinforcement materials. The main novelty of this research is that it presents the first study on the effect of non-linear soil behavior on the critical speed of high-speed railway ballasted tracks with soil reinforcement and introduces a novel simplified approach based on an equivalent homogeneous soil layer by replacing the soil layer containing inclusions/columns. To accomplish this, a full 3D non-linear numerical model was developed and experimentally validated. The findings from a detailed and comprehensive parametric analysis demonstrate a significant influence of non-linear behavior on the critical speed, resulting in reductions of up to 30% compared to the linear elastic scenario. Furthermore, it is found that the soil-reinforcement stiffness contrast, the area replacement ratio, and the plasticity index of the soil foundation play a crucial role in the critical speed. Other aspects such as the installation pattern and the thickness of soft soil have a relatively lower impact on the critical speed.
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