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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 110
PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Edited by: J. Pombo
Paper 35

Evaluation of the Dynamic Behaviour of Railway Soil Foundations using In-Situ Buried Instrumentation

F. Lopez-Caballero1, F. Bonilla2, S. Costa D'Aguiar3 and C. Voivret3

1MSS-Mat CNRS UMR 8579, CentraleSupelec, Paris-Saclay University, France
2Paris Est university - IFSTTAR, France
3Innovation et Recherche, Departement Physique Ferroviaire, SNCF, France

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
F. Lopez-Caballero, F. Bonilla, S. Costa D'Aguiar, C. Voivret, "Evaluation of the Dynamic Behaviour of Railway Soil Foundations using In-Situ Buried Instrumentation", in J. Pombo, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 35, 2016. doi:10.4203/ccp.110.35
Keywords: in-situ testing, time-frequency analysis, cross-correlation function, high speed railway.

Summary
The aim of the work, described in this paper, is to propose a method enabling the in-situ mechanical characterisation of railway materials from the use of acceleration records of a downhole seismic instrumentation network installed in a research facility of the national French Railway Company. This is done using some geophysical methods (i.e. interferometry and time-frequency analysis) to analyse the vibrations induced by the dynamic loading of a passing trains. According to the recorded data from the instrumented site, it is shown that the response of rail-embankment-ground system is mainly non-linear elastic.

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