TY - JOUR A1 - Auersch, Lutz T1 - Mitigation of railway induced vibration at the track, in the transmission path through the soil and at the building T2 - Procedia Engineering N2 - This contribution presents some principles and some examples of the mitigation of railway-induced ground vibrations. The principles are different for the mitigation measures at the track, in the soil or at the building. Force transfer functions of isolated and un-isolated track-soil systems, reflected and transmitted wave amplitudes at walls and trenches in the soil, and the transfer of the (free-field) vibration amplitudes to the foundation amplitudes of the building are analysed. The mitigation effect can be calculated by exact or simplified formulas. Some examples with 3D (finite-element boundary-element), 2D (beam-on-support), and 1D track models, 2D and 1D soil models, detailed 3D building models and finite or infinite 1D wall-floor models are investigated to find out if simple models can be used for a satisfactory prediction of the mitigation effect. The 1D track examples show that the force transfer of the track without vehicle can be exactly calculated, whereas the total force transfer can be calculated approximately if appropriate wheelset masses per track length are used for the isolated and the un-isolated track. The mitigation effect of a filled trench is calculated by a 2D finite element model and the results compare with simple transmission formula if the stiffness per area rather than the wave impedances are used for the infill material. The base isolation of a building is analysed by a detailed 3D model and the results are similar to the analytic results of a single wall with floors on the soil. Other reduction measures as different floor and column dimensions are usually less effective so that the clearly best mitigation solution at a building is a partly or a complete base isolation. PB - Elsevier CY - London T2 - X INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS (EURODYN 2017) KW - Mitigation KW - Soil-building interaction KW - Base isolation KW - Ground vibration PY - 2017 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/42086 AN - OPUS4-42086 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-420869 SN - 1877-7058 VL - 199 SP - 2312 EP - 2317 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany