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Data-Driven Relationship for Reduction Factor of Ballasted Railway Bridge Deflections Due to Load Distribution Within Track
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering, Structural Engineering and Bridges.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8453-8937
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Construction, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
Department of Continuum Mechanics and Theory of Structures, Universitat Politécnica Valéncia, Valencia, Spain.
2024 (English)In: International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, ISSN 0219-4554, E-ISSN 1793-6764, article id 2540017Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Increasing the operating speed of the trains on modern networks necessitates performing dynamic analyses to assess the performance of bridges under passage of trains. The detailed investigation of their responses requires constructing complex computational models capable to take the train-track-bridge interaction effects into account. Such models have successfully been developed; however, employing those elaborated models for practical engineering applications, or to perform studies that require a large number of analyses may become infeasible. Among such situations are conducting probabilistic investigations, screening of entire networks, or sensitivity analyses. These concerns have been addressed by employing simplified models mostly relying on moving load modeling strategy which disregards the train-track-bridge interaction effects. Those neglected contributions can be compensated by implementing additional correction factors. The distribution of loads within track is one of those disregarded effects where a reduction factor is recommended by design guidelines to take its contribution into account. It has been shown that the existing relationship for these reduction factors delivers an acceptable performance for vertical accelerations, while showing a less favorable performance for displacements. Then, a data-driven strategy is adopted in this study to propose easy-to-apply relationships for reduction factors of deflections, due to load distribution within the track. In this context, three different distributive lengths of triangular load footprints have been considered, namely 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0m. The procedure employed has trained and tested for more than 1200 train configurations, comprising conventional, articulated and regular vehicles, and including several tens of thousand data points for each distributive length. The performance observed in the new models revealed a considerable improvement with respect to the existing relationship.

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World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd , 2024. article id 2540017
Keywords [en]
axle load distribution, bridge dynamics, data-driven modeling, high-speed, Railway bridges, track-bridge interaction
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Infrastructure Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-367273DOI: 10.1142/S0219455425400176ISI: 001325099100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85206116501OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-367273DiVA, id: diva2:1984772
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Available from: 2025-07-17 Created: 2025-07-17 Last updated: 2025-07-17Bibliographically approved

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