This dataset reports data for the figures published in: "An engineering model for the prediction of the sound radiation from a railway track", Journal of Sound and Vibration.

Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D1055

ReadMe Author: Xianying Zhang, University of Southampton

This dataset supports the publication:
Xianying Zhang, David Thompson, Erika Quaranta, Giacomo Squicciarini
"An engineering model for the prediction of the sound radiation from a railway track"
Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2019.
PAPER DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2019.114921


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:
Figure2a_Elementarysources.txt
Figure2b_RadiationRatioLateral.txt
Figure5_Sleeperradiation.txt
Figure7a_SoundpowerV_averaged.txt
Figure7b_SoundpowerL_averagedSMOOTHED.txt
Figure8a_SoundpowerV_Differentsleepernum.txt
Figure8b_SoundpowerV_DifferentsleeperWidth.txt
Figure9a_TDR.txt
Figure9b_SLEEPERvibrationratio.txt
Figure10_RadiationratioV_Railwave.txt
Figure11a_SoundpowerV_RailsleeperwaveSoftPad.txt
Figure11b_SoundpowerV_RailsleeperwaveStiffPad.txt
Figure13a_Source_pos.txt
Figure13b_Power.txt
Figure13c_Disc_cont.txt
Figure13d_Disc_minus_cont.txt
Figure14a_Comparison_averagedrailradiationVertical.txt
Figure14b_Comparison_averagedrailradiationLateral.txt
Figure15a_RadiationRatioVertical.txt
Figure15b_RadiationRatioLateral.txt
Figure16_Sleeperradiation.txt
Figure17_ComparisoncomponentsDBA.txt
Figure18a_ComparisonTotal.txt
Figure18b_SPLslabtrack.txt

Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K.

Licence: CC BY

Related projects:
EP/H044949/1, ‘Railway Track for the 21st Century (Track 21)’ and EP/M025276/1, ‘The science and analytical tools to design long life, low noise railway track systems (Track to the Future)’.


Date that the file was created: August, 2019