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A comparison of rolling noise from different tram tracks

A comparison of rolling noise from different tram tracks
A comparison of rolling noise from different tram tracks

A number of different track forms are studied from one tramway system including tracks in ballast, on slab, and embedded rail in grass. Measurements have been carried out of rail roughness, wheel roughness and track decay rate, which are used as input data for the noise prediction model TWINS. The rail vibration and exterior noise of trams in operation have also been measured for comparison with the prediction model. The model is used to identify the relative contributions of noise radiated by the track and the wheels. The differences between different track forms are determined and the reasons for them are identified.

Embedded rail, Rail roughness, Rolling noise, Track decay rate, Tramways
1612-2909
597-604
Springer Cham
Sun, Wenjing
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Thompson, David J.
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Toward, Martin
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Wiseman, Marcus
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Ntotsios, Evangelos
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Degrande, Geert
Anderson, David
Gautier, Pierre-Etienne
Tuman Nelson, James
Thompson, David J.
Towers, David A.
Lombaert, Geert
de Vos, Paul
Iida, Masanobu
Nielsen, Jens C.O.
Tielkes, Thorsten
Sun, Wenjing
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Thompson, David J.
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Toward, Martin
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Wiseman, Marcus
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Ntotsios, Evangelos
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Degrande, Geert
Anderson, David
Gautier, Pierre-Etienne
Tuman Nelson, James
Thompson, David J.
Towers, David A.
Lombaert, Geert
de Vos, Paul
Iida, Masanobu
Nielsen, Jens C.O.
Tielkes, Thorsten

Sun, Wenjing, Thompson, David J., Toward, Martin, Wiseman, Marcus and Ntotsios, Evangelos (2021) A comparison of rolling noise from different tram tracks. In, Degrande, Geert, Anderson, David, Gautier, Pierre-Etienne, Tuman Nelson, James, Thompson, David J., Towers, David A., Lombaert, Geert, de Vos, Paul, Iida, Masanobu, Nielsen, Jens C.O. and Tielkes, Thorsten (eds.) Noise and Vibration Mitigation for Rail Transportation Systems: Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Railway Noise. (Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, 150) 13th International Workshop on Railway Noise (16/09/19 - 20/09/19) Springer Cham, pp. 597-604. (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-70289-2_65).

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Abstract

A number of different track forms are studied from one tramway system including tracks in ballast, on slab, and embedded rail in grass. Measurements have been carried out of rail roughness, wheel roughness and track decay rate, which are used as input data for the noise prediction model TWINS. The rail vibration and exterior noise of trams in operation have also been measured for comparison with the prediction model. The model is used to identify the relative contributions of noise radiated by the track and the wheels. The differences between different track forms are determined and the reasons for them are identified.

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Published date: 9 April 2021
Additional Information: Funding Information: Acknowledgements. The work described here has been supported by the EPSRC under the programme grant EP/M025276/1, ‘The science and analytical tools to design long life, low noise railway track systems (Track to the Future)’. The first author is an academic visitor at ISVR supported by the China Scholarship Council. Publisher Copyright: © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Venue - Dates: 13th International Workshop on Railway Noise, , Ghent, Belgium, 2019-09-16 - 2019-09-20
Keywords: Embedded rail, Rail roughness, Rolling noise, Track decay rate, Tramways

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Local EPrints ID: 467976
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/467976
ISSN: 1612-2909
PURE UUID: 6a6523e9-c1f3-4a58-9bd4-2d59eed06c87
ORCID for David J. Thompson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7964-5906
ORCID for Martin Toward: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7334-4355
ORCID for Evangelos Ntotsios: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-0948

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Date deposited: 27 Jul 2022 16:40
Last modified: 18 Mar 2024 03:26

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Author: Wenjing Sun
Author: Martin Toward ORCID iD
Author: Marcus Wiseman
Editor: Geert Degrande
Editor: David Anderson
Editor: Pierre-Etienne Gautier
Editor: James Tuman Nelson
Editor: David J. Thompson
Editor: David A. Towers
Editor: Geert Lombaert
Editor: Paul de Vos
Editor: Masanobu Iida
Editor: Jens C.O. Nielsen
Editor: Thorsten Tielkes

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