Novel Advances in Noise and Vibration Control for Rail Transportation Systems
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Transportation and Future Mobility".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2023) | Viewed by 1188
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wheel/rail system dynamics; urban rail transit; vibration and noise reduction; engineering applications of phononic crystals and metamaterials
Interests: environmental vibration and noise attenuation; acoustic/mechanical metamaterial design and application; machine learning
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Dear Colleagues,
Rail transit has been developed continuously and rapidly because of its advantages of large transportation volume, fast transportation speed, low travel pollution, low energy consumption rate, safe and convenient transportation, and high level of comfort. However, along with the increase in the volume of rail transit operations and the increasing density of the operating lines, the problems of vibration and noise pollution induced by the rail transit system have been highlighted. In order to solve the above problems, many scholars also carry out methods such as using vibration-damping fasteners, floating plate tracks, and damping rails, and a series of attempts have achieved good results; however, for some special interval lines, hub sites, or vehicle sections of the turnout interval, etc., with the above traditional vibration-damping track measures to increase the constraints, the effect reduced. When intensive human activities and complex rail transit system vibration and noise sources coexist in one place, the two contradictions and conflicts are particularly prominent and need to be resolved. Therefore, it is important to explore the mechanism of vibration and noise generation in a rail transportation system; conduct research on the key technologies for long-term control of vibration and noise in rail transit; and develop new rail transit vibration and noise reduction products with the help of new materials, new processes, etc.
Therefore, we are pleased to invite you to provide original articles, short communications, reviews, and opinion articles (mini-reviews) covering the entire field noise and vibration control of rail transportation systems, including (but not limited to):
- Methods for predicting vibration and noise in rail transportation.
- Environmental vibration mechanism and control technology.
- Wheel–track noise mechanism and control technology.
- Environmental vibration control of turnout intervals.
- Engineering applications of new vibration-damping tracks.
- New vibration and noise reduction product development.
- Rail transportation system dynamics.
- Rail wave wear and rail vibration noise.
- Multidisciplinary cross-fertilization of track vibration and noise reduction technologies.
Prof. Dr. Caiyou Zhao
Dr. Lingling Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rail transit
- vibration and noise prediction
- environmental vibration
- turnout interval vibration
- wheel and rail noise
- long-term vibration control technology
- mechanics, acoustics, and metamaterials
- cross-fertilization of disciplines
- new vibration and noise reduction equipment
- engineering structure optimization
- rail system dynamics
- data-driven and deep learning
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