Railway Dynamics and Maintenance
A special issue of Vibration (ISSN 2571-631X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 13860
Special Issue Editor
Interests: structures subjected to moving loads; semi-analytical methods; railway track dynamic modeling; optimization; geosynthetics in rehabilitation of railway tracks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last decade, European railway network capacity has experienced a rapid increase, all with the purpose of fulfilling the requirements of the White Paper published by the European Commission, which requested a switch of passenger and freight transportation from road to rail to protect the environment by reducing CO2 emissions and energy savings. By increasing network capacity, the railway tracks that are currently installed and in use are being expected to withstand more than what they were designed for in terms of axle load, train speed, and frequency of passages. As a result, more efficient, effective, and sustainable maintenance is required. Additionally, it is becoming more urgent to conduct economic-based widespread research for cost-effective improvement of rail transport to come up with rehabilitation strategies. To achieve these objectives, which are not only restricted to European network problems, it is necessary to have:
- Reliable dynamic models of railway tracks providing usable numerical results within a reasonable computational time, with acceptable precision and accounting for uncertainty of mechanical properties of railway track components;
- Effective solutions for vibration mitigation;
- Sustainable solutions for transition zones;
- Efficient methods for monitored data analysis to identify critical regions;
- Reliable performance indicators of railway structure to measure the added value of rehabilitation interventions;
- Cost–benefit analysis based on an economic feasibility study adapted to railway problematics in order to identify the most beneficial maintenance strategies.
This Special Issue intends to summarize recent developments in the topics identified above. Other submissions on related topics are also welcome.
Dr. Zuzana Dimitrovová
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- dynamic models of railway track
- vibration mitigation
- transition zones
- identification of critical regions
- sustainable rehabilitation
- performance indicators of railway structure
- cost–benefit analysis
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