Noise barriers for high-speed train lines are subject to strong vibrations due to fluid pressure generated by moving trains. The barriers, generally made of steel cantilever beams, suffer fatigue. For their safety, it is necessary to adopt more resistant solutions or reduce their vibration, as is applied in this study. Following the fundamental work by Den Hartog on viscoelastic tuned mass dampers, later contributions on vibration mitigation have shown a variety of phenomena exhibited by a primary structure connected to a nonlinear light attachment. Vibration reduction of the structure has been observed for selected characteristics of the attachment. Here, the use of a hysteretic absorber is exploited. The device, made of light mass on rubber elements, has the advantage of directly representing the elastic and damping elements. The Bouc-Wen model describes the absorber behavior and its parameters are determined by the experimental results. Due to the dependence of the nonlinear system response on the oscillation amplitude, an optimal tuning is adjusted. The system is calibrated to behave around the 1:1 internal resonance condition. Numerical and experimental results show that the absorber effectively reduces the amplitude and the number of vibration cycles.

A hysteretic absorber to mitigate vibrations of rail noise barriers / Basili, Michela; Casini, Paolo; Morelli, Laura; Vestroni, Fabrizio. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES. - ISSN 1742-6588. - (2019). (Intervento presentato al convegno Thirteenth International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics tenutosi a Valpre, Lyon, France).

A hysteretic absorber to mitigate vibrations of rail noise barriers

Michela Basili;Paolo Casini;MORELLI, LAURA;Fabrizio Vestroni
2019

Abstract

Noise barriers for high-speed train lines are subject to strong vibrations due to fluid pressure generated by moving trains. The barriers, generally made of steel cantilever beams, suffer fatigue. For their safety, it is necessary to adopt more resistant solutions or reduce their vibration, as is applied in this study. Following the fundamental work by Den Hartog on viscoelastic tuned mass dampers, later contributions on vibration mitigation have shown a variety of phenomena exhibited by a primary structure connected to a nonlinear light attachment. Vibration reduction of the structure has been observed for selected characteristics of the attachment. Here, the use of a hysteretic absorber is exploited. The device, made of light mass on rubber elements, has the advantage of directly representing the elastic and damping elements. The Bouc-Wen model describes the absorber behavior and its parameters are determined by the experimental results. Due to the dependence of the nonlinear system response on the oscillation amplitude, an optimal tuning is adjusted. The system is calibrated to behave around the 1:1 internal resonance condition. Numerical and experimental results show that the absorber effectively reduces the amplitude and the number of vibration cycles.
2019
Thirteenth International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics
noise barriers; Hysteretic tuned-mass-damper; Internal resonance
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A hysteretic absorber to mitigate vibrations of rail noise barriers / Basili, Michela; Casini, Paolo; Morelli, Laura; Vestroni, Fabrizio. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES. - ISSN 1742-6588. - (2019). (Intervento presentato al convegno Thirteenth International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics tenutosi a Valpre, Lyon, France).
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