Nonlinear analysis of high-speed trains moving on bridges during earthquakes

This paper investigates the derailment of high-speed trains moving on multispan simply supported bridges. A?moving wheel finite element containing contact and separation modes was developed to simulate vehicle?Cbridge interaction problems under seismic loads. Rail irregularities and bridge?Crail?Ctrain interactions were appropriately considered in the nonlinear finite element analysis, which indicates that the derailment coefficients are enlarged with the increase of train speeds for high-speed trains moving on multispan simply supported bridges. The accelerations of elevated bridge girders may be significantly magnified during the seismic load; moreover, gaps between simply supported girders during seismic loads will produce large derailment coefficients.     

Comments on “Vibration suppression for high-speed railway bridges using tuned mass dampers” [J.F. Wang,C.C. Lin,B.L. Chen, 2003. Int. J. Solids Struct. 40(2) 465–491]

In this comment, the discusser makes some remarks on the paper “Vibration suppression for high-speed railway bridges using tuned mass dampers” by Wang, J.F., Lin, C.C., Chen, B.L., published in the International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2003, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 465–491. First, the formulation of H(t, t_k) on p. 470 is questionable. Second, for a moving suspension mass model, the interaction force between moving mass and bridge is incorrectly given. Third, for a moving mass model for the train and without the installation of PTMD (passive tuned mass damper), the equation of motion of the bridge is incorrect. Lastly, for the train load model, which consists of one-half of a train car, one bogie, two wheel sets, spring and dashpot between bogie and half of a train car, and spring and dashpot between bogie and each wheel set, the authors did not put forward the formulation of interaction force between wheel set and bridge, but the discusser does.     

高速铁路连续梁桥的共振响应与振动控制研究

以液体粘滞阻尼器为振动控制外部装置,主桥采用欧拉伯努利梁,通过中国和谐号动车组CRH380AL、日本新干线Shinkansen700和欧洲高速列车HSLMA8三种不同类型的高速列车对比,模拟分析了高速列车作用下桥梁结构共振响应的影响因素,以及粘滞阻尼器的阻尼系数与安装位置对桥梁结构振动响应的减振效果。研究结果表明,（1）合理有效地布置列车荷载轴距,可使桥梁结构发生基频共振的列车时速在运营时速之外,避免了桥梁结构发生较大振动峰值响应,即桥梁结构的基频共振;（2）随着粘滞阻尼器阻尼系数的增大,桥梁的加速度峰值在列车不同时速下均在减少,对桥梁振动有着不同程度的减振效果;（3）通过合理安置液体粘滞阻尼器,可有效降低高速列车作用下桥梁结构的共振响应;（4）随着粘滞阻尼器与主梁的连接点位置逐渐远离支座,粘滞阻尼器的减振效果逐渐明显;（5）随着粘滞阻尼器与桥台的连接点位置逐渐靠近支座,粘滞阻尼器的减振效果略有提升,但不明显。     

移动随机荷载作用下梁桥非平稳随机振动的PEM-FFT方法

针对移动随机载荷作用下桥梁结构非平稳随机振动问题,建立了一种基于频域分析的虚拟激励-傅里叶变换方法(PEM-FFT)。与通常的非平稳随机振动的时频分析方法不同,提出的方法完全在频域上执行。其主要特色是能够给出随机输入与随机输出的频域关系,表明移动载荷作用下结构非平稳随机振动分析仅需对载荷的确定性移动函数项进行计算。数值算例考虑了等截面/变截面简支梁受移动随机载荷作用的问题,首先与通常的时频分析方法进行对比,验证了PEM-FFT方法的正确性和有效性,进一步讨论了不同结构形式以及不同载荷移动速度对响应演变统计量的影响。     

车-轨-桥耦合动力系统影响参数分析

为了考虑高速列车、板式无砟轨道和桥梁相互作用的特点,需将列车模拟为质量-弹簧-阻尼多刚体相互约束的系统,通过列车车轮与钢轨的接触关系,建立车-轨-桥耦合系统的运动方程。重点分析了双线列车以不同工况通过高速铁路桥梁时,列车行驶状态(速度和加速度)、列车悬挂系数和钢轨-轨道-桥梁连接参数分别对车-轨-桥耦合系统的动力学性能影响。结果表明,(1)列车的加速度和速度的变化对耦合系统有不同程度的影响,随着列车行驶速度与加速度在一定范围内增加,车体自身结构的位移振动响应逐渐减小,而钢轨和桥梁结构的位移振动响应则不断增加;(2)列车悬挂参数的改变对列车自身结构影响较大,而对钢轨和桥梁结构影响很小;(3)车体一系刚度系数增大会引起列车系统结构振动响应变大,但车体二系刚度系数的增加却抑制了车体结构的振动响应;(4)除了钢轨的最大加速度随着连续刚度系数增加呈线性递减外,列车、钢轨和桥梁的振动响应不易受钢轨与桥梁间连接参数的影响。     

A study on the period of the free lateral vibration of the beam bridge by the theory of the orthotropic rectangular plate

Conclusion The frequency of the right, simple beam bridges is discussed by the laboratory study on the model beam bridges and the field tests on existing beam bridges in this paper, but furthermore, the application to the skew beam bridge or to the continuous beam bridge and the problem of forced vibration should be studied.Even if more exact studies are necessary, it is made sure by the study in this paper that the theory of the orthotropic plate is proper to the analysis of the free lateral vibration of the beam bridge and sufficient enough for practical purpose, especially for the beam bridge of which the width is almost equal to the span.     

3D analysis of high-speed trains moving on bridges with foundation settlements

This paper investigates the derailment of trains moving on multi-span simply supported bridges with foundation settlements or rotations. Rail irregularities, train–track–bridge interactions, and wheel/rail separations were considered in the three-dimensional nonlinear finite element analysis. A moving spring-mass with separation and contact modes was used to validate the proposed finite element model. In the parametric study, finite element results indicate that foundation settlements or rotations cause sharp displacements between two simply supported girders, which generate large train derailment coefficients. The train derailment coefficients rise with increased train speed, and they greatly increase at a critical speed. The time history displacements of a train obviously contain a jump when it passes a location with foundation settlements or rotations, so a warning system can be established using this measurement.     

基于荷载形函数的大跨桥梁结构移动荷载识别

大跨桥梁结构中的移动荷载识别是结构健康监测的重要组成部分之一,其作为动力学中的反问题,存在唯一性及稳定性等病态问题。本文首先推导出移动荷载作用下结构响应的卷积形式的离散公式,然后利用有限元理论中的形函数拟合移动荷载,推导出基于荷载形函数的移动荷载识别表达式。将移动荷载的识别转化为荷载形函数拟合系数的识别,降低了需要识别的未知量,减小了逆运算的计算量,消除或减弱逆问题病态性,并提高了计算效率。利用某大跨刚构-连续预应力混凝土桥梁修正后的有限元模型进行数值仿真,考虑路面粗糙度,由模态叠加法计算移动荷载作用下的响应;然后采用荷载形函数方法识别移动荷载,证明该方法在5%以下的噪声时能快速并精确识别复杂桥梁结构的移动荷载。     

交通载荷作用下跨海桥梁-电缆组合结构随机振动分析

电缆沿桥跨海铺设是海缆铺设的一种新的形式, 针对由汽车和列车交通载荷诱发的沿跨海桥梁敷设电缆的振动问题, 建立了桥梁-电缆的整体组合结构分析模型, 将汽车和列车的作用载荷简化为移动的随机集中载荷序列, 发展虚拟激励法(pseudo-excitation method, PEM)用于分析移动随机载荷作用下电缆位移和应力响应的标准差及演变功率谱 (power spectral density, PSD), 并研究了汽车和列车运行速度对电缆动力响应标准差的影响. PEM将移动随机载荷问题转化为特定频率简谐移动载荷作用下的动力响应分析, 能够计算得到与Monte Carlo (MC) 方法非常吻合的电缆动力响应标准差, 但所需的时域响应分析次数远少于MC方法. 数值结果表明, 随着汽车和列车运行速度的提升, 电缆位移和应力标准差呈现增大的趋势; 在汽车和列车交通载荷作用下, 铝护套的位移标准差和功率谱的值比缆芯要大, 这可能会使得电缆的疲劳破坏首先发生在铝护套层, 本文工作对电缆沿桥跨海铺设实际工程具有一定的借鉴意义.      

不确定性移动载荷激励下弹性简支梁的动态响应边界分析及应用

不确定性移动载荷激励下的弹性梁振动是土木、机械和航空航天等工程领域普遍存在的一类重要问题。在许多实际工程中,不确定移动载荷的样本测试数据有限或测试成本较高,本文引入区间过程模型对此类动态不确定性参数进行描述,提出了一种求解不确定移动载荷激励下弹性梁振动响应边界的非随机振动分析方法。首先,介绍了确定性移动载荷激励下弹性梁的振动微分方程及其解析求解方法;其次,引入区间过程模型,以上下边界函数的形式对不确定性移动载荷进行度量,进而基于模态叠加法发展出弹性梁振动响应边界求解的非随机振动分析方法;最后,将上述非随机振动分析方法应用于车桥耦合振动问题。     

谐波激励下斜拉桥面内非线性振动试验研究

斜拉桥拉索的振动问题一直是桥梁工程领域的研究热点。为揭示拉索大幅振动的力学机理,课题组建立了斜拉桥的全桥精细化模型,本文测试和研究了单频激励下的斜拉桥可能的非线性振动行为。首先,通过自由振动试验测试了模型的模态参数,并与两类有限元模型（OECS模型和MECS模型）进行对比,结果吻合良好。其次,试验研究了在单个竖向简谐激励下斜拉桥模型的非线性响应。研究发现：当激励频率与斜拉桥某阶全局模态频率接近时,主梁产生主共振,并引起多根长索产生大幅的参强振动;当激励频率与某根斜拉索面内一阶频率之比为1：2或者2：1时,可以观测到索中产生超谐波和亚谐波共振现象。     

Reliability analysis for the uncertainties in vehicle and high-speed railway bridge system based on an improved response surface method for nonlinear limit states

The paper deals with the reliability analysis for the high-speed railway bridge systems. Although the bridge–vehicle interactive system has much more uncertainties in the resistance and loads of trains moving at very high speed compared with static structural analysis, little concern has been engaged to identify which random variable has to be considered in the probabilistic analysis, or what criteria should be selected to determine the probabilistic safety or serviceability. The considered design parameters thus involve uncertainties in stiffness, moment of inertia, damping ratio of primary suspension in terms of load, geometry of girders and slabs, and the mechanical properties of girders in terms of resistance. The considered limit states embrace the safety of trains and comfort of passengers, and the acceptability criteria are based on UIC code. For evaluating the reliability of the time-dependent nonlinear behavior of complex structures, an improved Response Surface Method (RSM) is developed. An adaptive technique and a weight matrix are utilized as an optimizing technique that accelerates the convergence in the reliability analysis. The results of improved RSM, compared with the basic and adaptive RSM, are verified with the improved convergence to the exact solution. The bridge response is analyzed using a new three-dimensional finite element model of high-speed train–bridge interactions. The track structures are idealized using beam elements with the offset of beam nodes and beams on a two-parameter elastic foundation. The vehicle model developed for a 300 km/h train is employed. The calculated reliabilities for performance of the considered bridges and the passenger comfort on board of high-speed trains are compared to the conventional safety indices. The results of this study allow identifying the quantification of uncertainties that can control quality of the high-speed train service.     

安装固定气动翼板的大跨桥梁抖振分析

建立了安装固定气动翼板的大跨桥梁多模态耦合抖振分析框架，推演了作用在整个桥梁-气动翼板系统上的抖振力和自激力的显式表达式，考虑了多模态耦合效应．基于有限元法，作用在主梁-气动翼板系统上的抖振力转化为节点力，进一步得到作用在整个桥梁上的抖振力并导出了其功率谱密度矩阵；作用在主梁．气动翼板系统上的气弹自激力转化为节点力，并将其表达为气弹刚度矩阵和气弹阻尼矩阵．通过组集得到系统的运动方程，然后运用虚拟激励法在频域计算系统的抖振响应．以某大跨斜拉桥为例进行研究，结果表明：在主梁下方安装-对固定气动翼板后，主梁的扭转角位移、角加速度以及侧向加速度响应能够得到有效控制。     

带弹簧-质量系统的车-桥耦合演变随机振动

提取悬挂有弹簧-质量系统桥梁的模态函数,将车辆简化为一个两自由度的移动系统,以桥面不平度功率谱密度为输入,建立车辆与带弹簧-质量系统的桥梁的耦合系统力学模型. 结合状态空间理论和演变随机过程的一般理论,研究车-桥耦合演变随机振动的弹簧-质量系统控制. 通过数值算例可知:弹簧-质量系统对车辆的随机响应没有影响,而可以降低桥梁的随机响应. 最后,探讨了弹簧-质量系统与桥梁质量比、弹簧--质量系统个数对桥梁随机响应的影响.     

Substructure method in high-speed monorail dynamic problems

The study of actions of high-speed moving loads on bridges and elevated tracks remains a topical problem for transport. In the present study, we propose a new method for moving load analysis of elevated tracks (monorail structures or bridges), which permits studying the interaction between two strained objects consisting of rod systems and rigid bodies with viscoelastic links; one of these objects is the moving load (monorail rolling stock), and the other is the carrying structure (monorail elevated track or bridge). The methods for moving load analysis of structures were developed in numerous papers [1–15]. At the first stage, when solving the problem about a beam under the action of the simplest moving load such as a moving weight, two fundamental methods can be used; the same methods are realized for other structures and loads. The first method is based on the use of a generalized coordinate in the expansion of the deflection in the natural shapes of the beam, and the problem is reduced to solving a system of ordinary differential equations with variable coefficients [1–3]. In the second method, after the “beam-weight” system is decomposed, just as in the problem with the weight impact on the beam [4], solving the problem is reduced to solving an integral equation for the dynamic weight reaction [6, 7]. In [1–3], an increase in the number of retained forms leads to an increase in the order of the system of equations; in [6, 7], difficulties arise when solving the integral equations related to the conditional stability of the step procedures. The method proposed in [9, 14] for beams and rod systems combines the above approaches and eliminates their drawbacks, because it permits retaining any necessary number of shapes in the deflection expansion and has a resolving system of equations with an unconditionally stable integration scheme and with a minimum number of unknowns, just as in the method of integral equations [6, 7]. This method is further developed for combined schemes modeling a strained elastic compound moving structure and a monorail elevated track. The problems of development of methods for dynamic analysis of monorails are very topical, especially because of increasing speeds of the rolling stock motion. These structures are studied in [16–18].In the present paper, the above problem is solved by using the method for the moving load analysis and a step procedure of integration with respect to time, which were proposed in [9, 19], respectively. Further, these components are used to enlarge the possibilities of the substructure method in problems of dynamics. In the approach proposed for moving load analysis of structures, for a substructure (having the shape of a boundary element or a superelement) we choose an object moving at a constant speed (a monorail rolling stock); in this case, we use rod boundary elements of large length, which are gathered in a system modeling these objects. In particular, sets of such elements form a model of a monorail rolling stock, namely, carriage hulls, wheeled carts, elements of the wheel spring suspension, models of continuous beams of monorail ways and piers with foundations admitting emergency subsidence and unilateral links. These specialized rigid finite elements with linear and nonlinear links, included into the set of earlier proposed finite elements [14, 19], permit studying unsteady vibrations in the “monorail train-elevated track” (MTET) system taking into account various irregularities on the beam-rail, the pier emergency subsidence, and their elastic support by the basement. In this case, a high degree of the structure spatial digitization is obtained by using rods with distributed parameters in the analysis. The displacements are approximated by linear functions and trigonometric Fourier series, which, as was already noted, permits increasing the number of degrees of freedom of the system under study simultaneously preserving the order of the resolving system of equations.This approach permits studying the stress-strain state in the MTET system and determining accelerations at the desired points of the rolling stock. The proposed numerical procedure permits uniquely solving linear and nonlinear differential equations describing the operation of the model, which replaces the system by a monorail rolling stock consisting of several specialized mutually connected cars and a system of continuous beams on elastic inertial supports.This approach (based on the use of a moving substructure, which is also modeled by a system of boundary rod elements) permits maximally reducing the number of unknowns in the resolving system of equations at each step of its solution [11]. The authors of the preceding investigations of this problem, when studying the simultaneous vibrations of bridges and moving loads, considered only the case in which the rolling stock was represented by sufficiently complicated systems of rigid bodies connected by viscoelastic links [3–18] and the rolling stock motion was described by systems of ordinary differential equations. A specific characteristic of the proposed method is that it is convenient to derive the equations of motion of both the rolling stock and the bridge structure. The method [9, 14] permits obtaining the equations of interaction between the structures as two separate finite-element structures. Hence the researcher need not traditionally write out the system of equations of motion, for example, for the rolling stock (of cars) with finitely many degrees of freedom [3–18].We note several papers where simultaneous vibrations of an elastic moving load and an elastic carrying structure are considered in a rather narrow region and have a specific character. For example, the motion of an elastic rod along an elastic infinite rod on an elastic foundation is studied in [20], and the body of a car moving along a beam is considered as a rod with ten concentrated masses in [21].     

不同轮轨接触模型在车桥耦合振动中的比较

以工程实例为研究对象,建立了整车-整桥系统耦合振动数值分析模型。考虑车轮的跳轨和挤密情况,建立了单边弹簧-阻尼系统弹性轮轨接触模型。采用基于多体系统动力学和有限元法结合的联合仿真技术,计算了两种轮轨接触时动车组列车以不同车速通过大跨度连续桥梁的耦合振动响应。数值计算结果表明:两种轮轨接触模型的桥梁动力响应比较接近;列车的横向轮轨力、轮重减载率和脱轨系数相差较大,当速度为350km/h时,横向轮轨力增大了46.5%,轮重减载率增大了130.8%,脱轨系数增大了24.66%;用单边-弹簧阻尼系统弹性轮轨接触模型更符合实际。     

Angefachte Schwingungen einer elastischen Fahrbahn bei der Überfahrt eines langen Zuges

Übersicht Die ungleichförmige Lastverteilung eines langen Zuges wird durch eine periodische, stetig verteilte Streckenlast modelliert. Diese Last kann bei der Überfahrt über ein balkenförmiges Fahrbahnelement Resonanz und Instabilität der Fahrbahnschwingung hervorrufen. Ihre Amplitude nimmt mit der Zeit und damit auch mit der Läuge des darüber fahrenden Zuges zu. Es wird die Zuglänge bestimmt, bei der eine kritische Schwingungsamplitude erreicht wird. Durch eine geeignete Abstimmung von Fahrbahn- zu Fahrzeuglänge läßt sich die Resonanzanregung wirkungsvoll verringern.

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Summary The non-uniform mass distribution of a long train is modelled by a periodic continuous load. This moving load can cause resonance and instability of the vibrations of a bridge or a beam-elevated guideway. The amplitude of vibration increases with time, and therefore with the length of the crossing train. An approximation is given for that length where the vibration amplitude reaches some critical value. By suitably relating the beam length to the car length the resonance amplitude can effectively be reduced.

     

受移动简谐力作用的多孔弹性半平面问题

研究了匀速移动的振动荷载作用下半无限多孔饱和固体中产生的应力和孔隙水压力．应用Fourier变换求解该问题的控制偏微分方程,考虑了荷载的移动速度及振动频率对多孔饱和固体中应力与孔隙水压力的影响,并与相应的弹性介质的解答进行了比较．结果显示多孔饱和半平面中应力和孔隙水压力随荷载的移动速度与振动频率的增加而增大,多孔饱和固体在移动荷载下的动力响应与相应的单相弹性固体的动力响应有较大的差别。     

高速铁路连续箱型梁桥的动力响应与减振分析

根据列车具体的轴距和轴重,建立了和谐号动车组CRH380AL型列车简化模型;对高速铁路两跨连续梁桥采用多自由度欧拉伯努利梁单元进行主梁的模拟,并将液体黏滞阻尼器模拟为有限元阻尼单元;采用Newmark直接积分方法求解了高速列车作用下的连续梁桥运动方程,数值分析了列车车速以及液体黏滞阻尼器的阻尼系数对于高速铁路连续梁桥振动响应的影响。结果表明:黏滞阻尼器对于桥梁具有明显的减振效果,阻尼力不仅与阻尼系数有关还与列车时速有关;同一黏滞阻尼器条件下,桥梁的最大加速度并不随列车速度的增加而单调增加,而是在某些特定列车车速下桥梁的最大加速度出现了峰值,且随着黏滞阻尼器的阻尼系数增大,桥梁振动响应峰值处的最大加速度减幅不同;同一列车时速的条件下,桥梁的减振效果并不是随着阻尼系数的递增呈正比递增,而是随着阻尼系数的增大,阻尼器的减振效果增幅在减小。     

Vibration and dynamic buckling of shear beam-columns on elastic foundation under moving harmonic loads

The vibration and buckling of an infinite shear beam-column, which considers the effects of shear and the axial compressive force, resting on an elastic foundation have been investigated when the system is subjected to moving loads of either constant amplitude or harmonic amplitude variation with a constant advance velocity. Damping of a linear hysteretic nature for the foundation was considered. Formulations in the transformed field domains of time and moving space were developed, and the response to moving loads of constant amplitude and the steady-state response to moving harmonic loads were obtained using a Fourier transform. Analyses were performed to examine how the shear deformation of the beam and the axial compression affect the stability and vibration of the system, and to investigate the effects of various parameters, such as the load velocity, load frequency, shear rigidity, and damping, on the deflected shape, maximum displacement, and critical values of the velocity, frequency, and axial compression. Expressions to predict the critical (resonance) velocity, critical frequency, and axial buckling force were proposed.