READ ME File For 'The directivity of noise radiated by a railway wheel in situ'

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D3487

Date that the file was created: May, 2025

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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ReadMe Author: David Thompson, University of Southampton, ORCID: 0000-0002-7964-5906

Date of data collection: Jan 2024 to Mar 2025

Information about geographic location of data collection: Southampton, UK and Shanghai, China

Related projects: Royal Society grant 223195.

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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
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Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: CC BY NC 4.0


This dataset supports the publication:
AUTHORS: Xianying Zhang, Yuan He, David J. Thompson, Zhiwei Hu 
TITLE: The directivity of noise radiated by a railway wheel in situ
JOURNAL: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineering, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
PAPER DOI IF KNOWN:

Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: n/a

Links/relationships to ancillary or related data sets: n/a


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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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This dataset contains:

Data relating to figures and tables in the paper, in Excel format

The figures and tables are as follows:

Figure 2 Comparison of the directivity for the wheel in free space between the prediction and the measured data from [6]. 
(a) 3-nodal-diameter and 1-nodal-circle axial mode; (b) 5-nodal-diameter and 1-nodal-circle axial mode; 
(c) 3-nodal-diameter radial mode; (d) 5-nodal-diameter radial mode.

Figure 4 Comparison of the sound power for a unit force under different boundary conditions in one-third octave bands. 
(a) Vertical excitation; (b) Lateral excitation. 

Figure 5 Comparison of the sound pressure at standard measurement point under different boundary conditions in one-third octave bands. 
(a) Vertical unit force; (b) Lateral unit force.

Figure 6 Comparison of the directivity under different conditions in terms of sound pressure level for a unit harmonic force 
averaged over frequency bands 50-5000 Hz. (a) Vertical force; (b) lateral force.

Figure 7 Distribution of sound pressure level along a horizontal line, results for a unit harmonic force, averaged over 
frequency bands 50-4000 Hz. (a) Vertical force; (b) lateral force.

Figure 8 Comparison of wheel directivity in the vertical plane with monopole, dipole and a combination in one-third octave bands 
for a vertical unit force.

Figure 9 Distribution of sound pressure from the wheel parallel to the track in the presence of the train body for a vertical unit force.

Table 1 Coefficients for the wheel directivity in the presence of the train body