Effect of track stiffness on vibration levels in railway tunnels

The paper discusses the difficulties in comparing and drawing conclusions from vibration measurements made in different railway tunnels. A number of new measurements are presented, which have been made and analyzed on a consistent basis. The track stiffness has been determined for each of the measurements. Graphs are presented which indicate the level of rail and tunnel floor vibration likely to occur for different track stiffnesses. The variance in the measurement results also indicates the potential error in using the data to predict vibration levels in new situations.     

Annoyance due to railway vibration at different times of the day

The time of day when vibration occurs is considered as a factor influencing the human response to vibration. The aim of the present paper is to identify the times of day during which railway vibration causes the greatest annoyance, to measure the differences between annoyance responses for different time periods and to obtain estimates of the time of day penalties. This was achieved using data from case studies comprised of face-to-face interviews and internal vibration measurements (N=755). Results indicate that vibration annoyance differs with time of day and that separate time of day weights can be applied when considering exposure-response relationships from railway vibration in residential environments.     

On rail vehicle vibrations induced by track unevenness: Analysis of the excitation mechanism

This paper deals with the analysis of the vibrations induced on the carbody of a rail vehicle by track unevenness. Attention is focused on the excitation mechanism of the carbody vibration modes, which has a strong influence on the vehicle's comfort. At first the problem is investigated through a simple three-degree-of-freedom analytical model, and the phenomenon of the critical velocities is analysed, pointing out how both rigid and flexible carbody vibration modes can be excited to a different extent, depending on the vehicle speed, and how they combine to produce the final carbody accelerations. Then the dynamic response of a real vehicle running on irregular track is simulated through a more detailed multibody model, suitable for quantitatively reproducing its dynamic behaviour in the 0-25 Hz frequency range. The 68 degrees-of-freedom of this model correspond to 35 rigid vibration modes of the vehicle components (carbody, bogie frames and wheelsets), plus the 33 carbody flexible modes which fall into the frequency-range of interest. In the last part of the paper, the obtained numerical results are compared to the experimental data collected during on-line tests, showing how the adopted numerical model accurately simulates the dynamic behaviour of the real vehicle at the different velocities, with very good agreement. The results presented in the paper demonstrate that the excitation of the flexible modes may have a decisive effect on carbody accelerations and that introducing carbody flexibility in the vehicle model turns out to be unavoidable for properly predicting a rail vehicle comfort performance.     

Changes induced in structure and optical properties of PM-355 nuclear track detector due to laser irradiation

PM-355 is a class of polymeric solid-state nuclear track detectors which has a lot of applications in several radiation detection fields. Samples from sheets of PM-355 have been exposed to infrared (IR) laser fluences ranging from 1 to 12.8?J/cm². The effect of IR laser radiation on the structural properties of PM-355 has been investigated using X-ray diffraction and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The results indicate that the samples exhibit chain scission under the effect of laser irradiation up to 4.2?J/cm², thus producing free radicals that led to the formation of new bonds started and continued until 12.8?J/cm². This reduces the ordering structure, giving the PM-355 polymer more resilience. In addition, the laser irradiation at the fluence range 4.2–12.8?J/cm² led to a more compact structure of PM-355, which resulted in an improvement in its isotropic nature with an increase in Vickers hardness and refractive index. Further, the color changes due to laser irradiation were computed using the transmission data in the wavelength range of 370–780?nm. It is found that the color intensity, which is the color difference between the irradiated samples and the non-irradiated one, increases with increasing the laser fluence, largely depending on the proportions of the blue color component.     

The use of a priori information in the statistical processing of experimental data

Methods are considered of improving the quality of the statistical processing of experimental data, owing to the use of both exact and approximately given a priori data.V. D. Kuznetsov Siberian Physicotechnical Institute at Tomsk State University. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 9, pp. 136–142, September, 1992.     

Diagnostic methods in the control of railway noise and vibration

A method for investigating urban railway vibrations by using diagnostic measurement techniques is discussed and some preliminary results are shown. It is suggested that diagnostic methods could form a useful complement to empirical and analytical vibration prediction models in this field.     

Simplified approach to the vibration analysis of elastic plates due to sonic boom

A theoretical study of the response of a flat plate to a sonic boom excitation is presented. For such a study, the problem of transient vibrations of elastic plates having clamped or simply supported boundary conditions under a pulse load in the shape of a capital N corresponding to a typical far-field sonic boom disturbance is discussed in a new fashion by using the concept of iso-amplitude contour lines on the surface of the plate. Series solutions consisting of products of eigenfunctions times functions of time are employed to analyse the motions. As an illustration of the technique, an elliptical plate subjected to a typical N wave arriving at normal incidence is chosen as a model because this involves a curvilinear boundary of a relatively simple shape, yet has no simple exact solution. Closed form solutions are obtained for both clamped as well as simply supported edges. The results have technical importance for the prediction of response of window panes and wall-panels to sonic boom. All details are explained by graphs.     

Nonlinearly induced relaxation to the ground state in a two-level system

We report the experimental demonstration of a nonlinear process in a two-level system, in which the amplitude of the excited state decays, transferring irreversibly a large fraction of its energy to the ground state, while shedding a part of it into radiation states. The experiments where preformed in a nonlinear optical waveguide, supporting two or three modes. The process is general, and is expected to occur in other nonlinear few level systems such as nonlinear quantum wells and Bose-Einstein condensates.     

Some remarks on the ground state of infinite systems in statistical mechanics

We investigate the ground states of infinite quantum lattice systems. It is shown in particular that a positive energy operator is associated with these states.     

Annoyance due to railway noise before and after the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen Line

The development of the Shinkansen railway network in Japan has continued since 1964; however, associated noise and vibration have seriously affected communities located beside the lines. The Kyushu Shinkansen Line (KSL) was opened in 2011 and a second temporary conventional railway line (STL) was operated in 2012. The purpose of this study was to compare community responses to railway noise and vibration before and after the opening of these two lines. Socio-acoustic surveys were performed in Kumamoto from 2009 to 2012, where the conventional and Shinkansen lines are adjacent. The noise and vibration exposures were increased slightly after the opening of the KSL but decreased slightly after the opening of the STL. When multiple logistic regression analysis was applied using highly annoyed/annoyed as the dependent variable and using day–evening–night sound level (L_den) and a dummy variable of before or after the opening of the KSL as independent variables, high annoyance was not changed significantly but moderate annoyance decreased significantly following the opening. There was no significant difference in either high or moderate annoyance between the periods before and after the opening of the STL.     

The local vibration modes due to impact on the edge of a viaduct

This paper describes the vibration responses of a cement viaduct model under impulsive force excitation. The frequencies and mode shapes of resonances can control magnitude of the structure-borne noise radiation. A steel hammer is used to excite the cement viaduct model at the centre and at the supporting edge position of the cross-section separately in order to acquire the vibration responses and mode shape data. From such data the global mode and local modes of the cement viaduct model are identified. It is shown that the edge of section supported by the web may have low impedance in the vertical direction. The results of analysis using a Finite Element Method confirmed the experimental findings of the cross-sectional modes of the cement viaduct model. The findings suggested that the vibrations of local modes are of two types: (1) Centre mode - the centre of top panel can move but the edge is fixed. (2) Edge (web) mode - the centre of panel is fixed but the edge (supported by web) can move.     

基态精细结构能级之间的量子相干引起的非线性效应

讨论了级联四能级系统中基态精细结构能级之间的量子相干引起的非线性效应。耦合场同时激励激发态的下精细结构能级和基态的两个精细结构能级之间的光学跃迁使系统中出现新吸收峰。研究结果表明,基态精细结构能级之间的粒子弛豫速率越小,量子相干效应越显著,但是增大耦合场的Rabi频率会削弱这种量子相干效应。     

基态精细结构能级之间的量子相干引起的非线性效应

讨论了级联四能级系统中基态精细结构能级之间的量子相干引起的非线性效应。耦合场同时激励激发态的下精细结构能级和基态的两个精细结构能级之间的光学跃迁使系统中出现新吸收峰。研究结果表明,基态精细结构能级之间的粒子弛豫速率越小,量子相干效应越显著,但是增大耦合场的Rabi频率会削弱这种量子相干效应。     

Response variance prediction in the statistical energy analysis of built-up systems

In the statistical energy analysis (SEA) of high frequency noise and vibration, a complex engineering structure is represented as an assembly of subsystems. The response of the system to external excitation is expressed in terms of the vibrational energy of each subsystem, and these energies are found by employing the principle of power balance. Strictly the computed energy is an average taken over an ensemble of random structures, and for many years there has been interest in extending the SEA prediction to the variance of the energy. A variance prediction method for a general built-up structure is presented here. Closed form expressions for the variance are obtained in terms of the standard SEA parameters and an additional set of parameters alpha(k) that describe the nature of the power input to each subsystem k, and alpha(ks) that describe the nature of the coupling between subsystems k and s. The theory is validated by comparison with Monte Carlo simulations of plate networks and structural-acoustic systems.     

Quantification of changes in modal parameters due to the presence of passive people on a slender structure

This work proposes a method to predict changes in modal parameters of a generic structure due to the presence of passive people. The method requires to accurately know the modal model of the empty structure, i.e. natural frequencies, damping ratios and mode shapes. No restriction on the number of degrees of freedom of the structure is required. Each passive subject on the structure is modelled through his apparent mass and is introduced locally on the empty structure to obtain a model of the joint human–structure system. To include the apparent mass of the subjects in the model both measurements and models available in literature were used. The effect of using different models of the apparent mass was investigated and the effect of using apparent masses obtained with different levels of vibration was analysed.     

Numerical analysis of isolation of the vibration due to moving loads using pile rows

The isolation of the vibration due to moving loads using pile rows embedded in a poroelastic half-space is investigated in this study. Based on Biot's theory and integral transform method, the free field solution for a moving load applied on the surface of a poroelastic half-space and the fundamental solution for a harmonic circular patch load applied in the poroelastic half-space are derived first. Using Muki and Sternberg's method and the fundamental solution for the circular patch load as well as the obtained free field solution for the moving load, the second kind of Fredholm integral equations in the frequency domain describing the dynamic interaction between pile rows and the poroelastic half-space is developed. Numerical solution of the frequency domain integral equations and numerical inversion of the Fourier transform yield the time domain response of the pile–soil system. Comparison of our results with some known results shows that our results are in a good agreement with existing ones. Numerical results of this study show that velocity of moving loads has an important impact on the vibration isolation effect of pile rows. The same pile row has a better vibration isolation effect for the lower speed moving loads than for the higher speed ones. Also, the optimal length of piles for higher speed moving loads is shorter than that for lower speed moving loads. Moreover, stiff pile rows tend to produce a better vibration isolation effect than flexible pile rows do.     

Broadening of vibration Q-bands in the Raman spectrum of carbon dioxide due to critical density fluctuations

Detailed analysis of CARS-spectroscopy experimental data of the carbon dioxide Fermi dyad showed that critical density variance should not exceed 0.1 and the lifetime of critical fluctuations is more than 10 ns. To interpret the experimental data, an original calculation of the critical fluctuation contribution to spectral line, considering the lifetime of critical fluctuations, was performed.     

探测功率展宽效应引起的电磁诱导透明向电磁诱导吸收的转化

本文对准L型四能级系统中探测功率展宽效应引起的非线性效应进行了理论研究.准L型四能级系统包括三个基态精细结构能级和一个激发态能级,除光学耦合场和探测场分别激励一个基态精细结构能级和激发态能级之间的跃迁外,附加了一个射频驱动场作用于其中一个基态精细结构能级和另一个新的基态精细结构能级之间,并通过与耦合场驱动共同能级建立量子相关性.研究结果表明,在射频驱动场的辅助激励下,探测功率展宽效应不仅可以使EIT的线宽增宽,还能引起吸收曲线中的类色散特性,使EIT最终变化为EIA.