READ ME File For 'Dataset for: The effects of ballast on the sound radiation from railway track'

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/405733

This dataset supports the publication:
Zhang, X., Thompson, D., Jeong, H., & Squicciarini, G. (2017). The effects of ballast on the sound radiation from railway track. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 399, 137-150.

This dataset contains:

The figures are as follows:

Files in the zip folder are organised as follows:
 - Each file refers to a figure in the paper
 - Each line of the figure is reported as a two column matrix in the text file, x values and y values
 - Prior to each matrix three headers lines are displayed reporting labels and legend

File contained in the zipped folder are:
Figure2_flowresistivityofonefifthballast.txt
Figure3_Absorptionofsqrt5.txt
Figure4_Absorption_comparisonoftwoscaleballast.txt
Figure5_Absorptionofonefifth.txt
Figure6_ModellingofScaleballastabsorption.txt
Figure7(a)_Railaboveballastvertical.txt
Figure7(b)_Railaboveballastlateral.txt
Figure9__Radiationratio_SSembedballast_freespace.txt
Figure10_Singlesleeperembedballast1.txt
Figure11__Singlesleeperembedballast2.txt
Figure13_Comparisonofsleeperandballastvibration.txt
Figure14_Vibrationdecaywithdistance.txt
Figure15_ComparisofFullScale_ballastsleeperratio.txt
Figure16_Ballastphase.txt
Figure17_Estimationofeffectsofballastvibrationonsleeperradiation.txt

Licence: CC BY

Related projects:
The work described here has been supported by the EPSRC under the programme grants EP/H044949/1,‘Railway Trackfor the 21stCentury (Track 21)’and EP/M025276/1,‘The science and analytical tools to design long life, low noise railwaytrack systems (Track to the Future)’.


Date that the file was created: August 2019