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Vibration Control of a High-Speed Railway Bridge Using Multiple Tuned Mass Dampers

 Vibration Control of a High-Speed Railway Bridge Using Multiple Tuned Mass Dampers
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Presented at IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016, published in , pp. 2519-2526
DOI: 10.2749/stockholm.2016.2518
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In the current article, the Banafjäl Bridge located on the Bothnia line (Botniabanan) in northern Sweden is studied. The bridge is a 40m long composite ballasted high-speed railway bridge. A 3D FE ...
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Author(s): (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Brinellvagen 23, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden)
(KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Brinellvagen 23, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden)
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016
Published in:
Page(s): 2519-2526 Total no. of pages: 8
Page(s): 2519-2526
Total no. of pages: 8
Year: 2016
DOI: 10.2749/stockholm.2016.2518
Abstract:

In the current article, the Banafjäl Bridge located on the Bothnia line (Botniabanan) in northern Sweden is studied. The bridge is a 40m long composite ballasted high-speed railway bridge. A 3D FE model of the bridge was developed using the commercial FE software, Abaqus. The FE model was calibrated against the measured data of the bridge. The dynamic response of the bridge’s FE model was investigated under the dynamic load of the passing HSLM-A trains using modal dynamic analysis. The vertical acceleration induced by excitation of the passing train exceeded the permissible limit of 3.5 m/s2 for the speed range of 220-240 km/h. Thus, damping solutions using multiple tuned mass dampers (MTMDs) were investigated. According to the results of this study, a 4 tonnes MTMD system consisting of 5 parallel TMDs attached to the mid-span of the bridge could effectively control the undesired vibration of the bridge in both warm and cold seasons.

Keywords:
vibration control dynamic analysis high-speed railroad bridge tuned mass dampers Banafjäl Bridge

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