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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 71
COMPUTATIONAL CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Edited by: G. De Roeck and B.H.V. Topping
Paper XIII.2

Railway Bridge-Rolling Stock, Non-Linear Dynamic Interaction

D.W. O'Dwyer and R.P. Gallagher

Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
D.W. O'Dwyer, R.P. Gallagher, "Railway Bridge-Rolling Stock, Non-Linear Dynamic Interaction", in G. De Roeck, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Computational Civil and Structural Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 285-291, 2000. doi:10.4203/ccp.71.13.2
Abstract
This paper describes a methodology for modelling the dynamic response of a railway bridge and track system under the action of rolling stock. The methodology presented separates the rolling stock, track system and bridge into three separate systems. This approach has the advantage of reducing the band width of the mass and stiffness matrices, which results in faster execution, and making the non-linear interaction between wheels and rails easier to model. The approach described is also ideal for including the effects of wheel profile and rail surface irregularities.

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