This dataset reports data for the figures published in: "Measurements of the high frequency dynamic stiffness of railway ballast and subgrade", Journal of Sound and Vibration.

ReadMe Author: Xianying Zhang, University of Southampton

This dataset supports the publication:
Xianying Zhang, David Thompson, Hongseok Jeong, Martin Toward, David Herron, Chris Jones, Nicolas Vincent
"Measurements of the high frequency dynamic stiffness of railway ballast and subgrade"
Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2019.
PAPER DOI IF KNOWN


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:
Fig2_Toward_phase.txt
Fig3_YoungModulus.txt
Fig5a_Herron_Stiffness_Amplitude_Comparison.txt
Fig5b_Herron_Stiffness_PhaseRAD_Comparison.txt
Fig6a_Herron_kB_summary.txt
Fig6b_Herron_eta_summary.txt
Fig7_Preload_50_200_Hz.txt
Fig8a_In_situ_k_mag.txt
Fig8b_In_situ_eta.txt
Fig9_In_situ_c.txt
Fig11a_Comparison_StiffgroundMagnitudePaper.txt
Fig11b_Comparison_StiffgroundDynamicStifffnessPhase1.txt
Fig12a_Comparison_SoftGroundDynamicStifffnessMagnitudePaper.txt
Fig12b_Comparison_SoftgroundDynamicStifffnessPhasePaper.txt
Fig13a_Comparison_magnitudePerSlepEndPaper.txt
Fig13b_Comparison_anglePerSlepEndPaper.txt
Fig14_Stiffness_sleeper_models.txt
Fig15_Sleeper_point_mobility.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: November, 2019