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Vol. 21 No. 3 (2021)

Published: October 31, 2021

Pages: 81-89

Original Article

Finite Element Analysis of Wave Barriers Used to Reduce Train Induced Vibrations

Haider S. Al-Jubair 1 Jaafar K. Ali 2 Hasan A. Ajel 1
1 Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq
2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq
History
  • Received: August 14, 2021
  • Revised: September 6, 2021
  • Accepted: September 12, 2021
  • Available Online: October 5, 2021
DOI

https://doi.org/10.33971/bjes.21.3.10

Abstract

The finite element method is used to simulate the soil vibration behavior due to the Basrah-Baghdad passenger train and its effect on a targeted building in the Al-Ma'qal quarter, Basrah governorate. Three-dimensional dynamic elastic analyses are performed to calculate the particle velocities for a train speed of 120 km/hr. The effectiveness of screening using active (10 m long) open trench barriers with variable depth (2 m - 5 m) and width (0.4 m - 0.8 m), is being studied. For a given trench width (0.4 m), the results of the parametric study revealed a considerable effect of trench depth where the screening capability near the trench is increased by (10.4 %, 26.1 %, 36.3 %) due to a (50 %, 100 %, 150 %) increase in depth. The results are less sensitive to the variation in trench width. The screening capability of a double open (0.4 m × 10 m × 2 m) trench system was also investigated, where a mitigation improvement of (36.4 %) was achieved. The vibration mitigation using single and double trench systems, filled with (40 %) rubber content mixture, was also analyzed. It is concluded that using the additional passive trench increases the mitigation of the single system by around 19.1 %. An important finding is that the (40 % rubber + 60 % native cohesive soil) mixture proved to be a good filling material, since the infilled-trench systems produced comparable screening ratios to the open systems, where (97.7 %) and (85.4 %) were accomplished for the single and double systems, respectively.

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