Vibration Characteristics of Fully Enclosed Sound Barriers on Railway Bridges under the Movement of Trains

Abstract

A field test was conducted to investigate the vibration of the fully enclosed sound barrier (FESB) of a railway bridge, and a numerical method was proposed and validated for evaluating the vibration of the bridge-FESB system by combining the train-track coupled theory and the motion equation. Additionally, a numerical analysis of the vibration distribution of the FESB was performed. The results indicated that the vibrations of the FESB were mainly caused by the vertical vibration of the bridge under the dynamic wheel-rail interaction with the greatest vibration level from 1/4 to 1/2 part of the steel arch and were not affected by the train position but increased with an increase in the speed of the train.