Vehiclestructure Dynamic Part1
Vehiclestructure Dynamic Part1
Vehiclestructure Dynamic Part1
Dynamic amplification and related phenomena of bridges due to loads from vehicles moving at different speed
should be studied in light of increased capacity of these to run at higher speed and volume. In India the intricate
network of the highways and the railways play an important role in safely carrying freight and passengers in bulk.
These networks consist of several small and long span cross drainage structures , culverts , bridges etc. They should
be made safe, operable and should be regularly upgraded on the basis of nature, frequency and economic importance
of the traffic. Some sections of this network, specially bridges or viaducts may require reassessment in terms of their
performance when subjected to heavy traffic and also when falls in the route which is dedicated as say high-speed
railway corridors. Current provisions of code for bridges may require some enhancement in terms of modified
impact factors or dynamic augmentation factors for live loads like high speed railway-trains or similar vehicles.
These dynamic impact factors shall be ascertained in light of vehicle-structure interaction between dynamic-moving
vehicles and the structures during design of both new as well as during inspection of old bridges. Also there is a
need for adopting generalised high speed load models representing a range of moving loads which becomes
necessary from the point of view interoperability of different types of high speed railway cars or general vehicles
meant for roadways. As a specific case railway bridges are chosen to be the ideal structures for this study.
Keywords : Vehicle-structure Dynamic Interaction, Dynamic Impact factor, High Speed Load Models.
1. INTRODUCTION
There is a strong urge for improvement some cases the increment in response (after
in the field of transportation in India which is applying CDA) of superstructures for bridges
reflected in expansion of road networks and with shorter spans is higher and conservative for
introduction of High-Speed Railway systems a certain range of speed. Traditional code based
into existing railway network. This move approaches can result in underestimation of
undoubtedly indicates an aspiring and growing responses of bridges under dynamic action
economy of our nation. However this caused by high-speed trains(HST). Therefore
development also demands improvement and some additional analysis is needed for bridges
reassessment of strength and safety of both when subjected to dynamic loading by railway-
existing and future infrastructure like tracks and cars moving at high speed. Extensive
inter-linking bridges. experimentation on the problem of dynamic
Our existing codes for bridges amplification of superstructures of bridges due
(railways) takes into account of increase in to moving vehicles have already been carried out
dynamic response of superstructures of bridges by various authorities. This study is an attempt
due to railway-cars by deriving impact factors to point out the need to review the prevalent
from specific formulae (coefficient of dynamic approaches in this respect and streamline them
augment-CDA) meant for railway tracks of as code provisions or recommendations.
different gauges and numbers [1] .This code
based formula serves well for a majority of the 2. OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY
super-structures if the speed of vehicles and
length of the span of superstructures is restrained The necessity of carrying additional
within specific range. Also it can be seen that for analysis of superstructures by taking into
Fig. 2 : Idealised model of a single car and components , load from wheel-axles and beam element