• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.2911-2916
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• 2015

The elevated railway station, above which a train is passing, is vulnerable to noise and vibration compared to other station types. To better identify the vibration characteristics of the elevated railway station, the transferred vibration from approach bridges should be analyzed. In this paper, through experiments and simulations, the transfer characteristics of the vibration from approach bridges is analyzed. The study structure is Geomgok station and the anaylses are conducted using ABAQUS three dimensional numerical model. To identify the change in the transfer characteristics for various bearing types, the analyses are performed considering mechanical properties of bearing for railway bridges. The measurement is performed using the accelerometers attached to the approach bridges and the station structure along the passing path of trains.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.559-565
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• 2010

In this study we propose noise energy harvesting for green infrastructure development. In this regard, infrastructures such as railroad, subway, and road are taken into consideration as sources of noise which provides energy through certain wave forms. As the need of recycling noise energy became reasonable due to the increase of infrastructure usage, the capacity and property of our noise energy generating device, which uses electromagnetic induction for electricity generation, are analysed in this paper. Consequently, the outcomes of this experiment show the fact that maximum electricity is generated from the device at a specific point of noise frequency, and the relation between air pressure caused by noise and the electricity generated by the device is in a specific proportional form either linear or non-linear. The major points of developing noise energy generating device in order to apply it into social infrastructure are discussed in this paper as well.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.352-360
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• 2015

Squeal noise is a harsh, high-pitched sound that occurs when railways are running at sharp curve tracks. The cause of squeal noise is known to be the transient lateral traction force between wheel and rail. Field measurements are too difficult to control the parameters. Thus, the scaled test rig should have been made in order to investigate the generating mechanism of squeal noise. The unique feature of our test rig, HSTR(Hongik Squeal Testing Rig), is that DOFs of its wheelset are as close to as those of the real railway. The attack angle and running speed of the rail roller are controlled in real time for simulating a transient characteristic of driving curve. The environment conditions, such as given axle load, running speed, and wheel's yaw angle have been identified for generating squeal noise and the squeal noise itself has been measured. The relation between wheel creepage and creep force in lateral direction and the criteria for squeal noise have been investigated, which results has been verified by finite element method.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.212-222
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• 2015

The characteristics of noise emission from tram systems should be investigated in order to design and construct an urban tram network that raises fewer environmental noise problems. In this paper, the characteristics of rolling noise from a tram were studied and a desired stiffness of the rail supports was proposed using a noise prediction model. The mobilities of embedded rails and resilient wheels were predicted using the Timoshenko beam model and the finite element model, respectively. The predicted mobilities were compared with the measured results. Compared with the measured values, the calculated noise level near the track showed small errors for frequencies higher than 300 Hz. Then, the source strengths of rail and wheel components were examined by varying the rail supporting stiffness and the slab supporting stiffness so that suitable stiffness values could be estimated that would reduce noise radiated from rails and wheels but that would not greatly increase the ground vibration.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.175-182
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• 2013

Rolling noise is an important source of noise from railways; it is caused by wheel and rail vibrations induced by acoustic roughness at the wheel/rail contact. To reduce rolling noise, it is necessary to have a reliable prediction model that can be used to investigate the effects of various parameters related to the rolling noise. This paper deals with modeling rolling noise from wheel and rail vibrations. In this study, the track is modeled as a discretely supported beam by regarding concrete slab tracks, and the wheel vibration is simulated by using the finite element method. The vertical and lateral wheel/rail contact forces are modeled using the linearized Hertzian contact theory, and then the vibration responses of the wheel and rail are calculated to predict the radiated noise. To validate the proposed model, a field measurement was carried out for a test vehicle. It was found that the predicted result agrees well with the measured one, showing similar behavior in the frequency range between 200 and 4000 Hz where the rolling noise is prominent.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.253-261
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• 2013

According to the measured results of KTX brake squeal noise in this study, high level brake noise occurred in a wide frequency range, 100~18,000Hz. To identify the sources of the brake squeal noise, unstable vibration modes due to brake disc/pad interaction were analyzed under various conditions by the finite element method. Complex eigenvalues for a brake unit with a disc and four pads were obtained. It was found that the real parts of the complex eigenvalues, that is, unstable vibration modes, were closely related to friction coefficients, pressure on the brake cylinders, elastic moduli of the components, and other conditions.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.561-564
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• 2004

방음벽의 상단모서리는 방음벽의 차음효과를 저하시키는 또 다른 허상음원으로 작용하며 이 현상은 저주파수 영역일수록 두드러지게 나타난다. 이 논문에서는 능동소음제어장치를 통해서 상단 모서리 표면의 음장을 최소화함으로써 표면임피던스의 변화를 통한 상단모서리 주변의 소리에너지의 역학과 원거리 음장에서의 효과를 고찰한다. 능동제어장치를 함유하는 상단모서리를 수학적으로 모델화하여 음장의 분포와 소리의 세기, 능동제어 효과에 영향을 미치는 조건들을 검토하였다. 수치해석적 연구를 통하여서 효과적으로 방음벽의 차음효과를 높이는 최적의 조건을 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2012.05b
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• pp.778-780
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• 2012

국내 전동차에는 슬라이딩 도어가 널리 사용되고 있으나 노이즈에 취약한 단점이 있었다. 저속 운행시에는 외부로부터 유입되는 소음이 문제가 되지 않았으나, 전동차가 고속으로 운행되면서 소음이 큰 이슈로 자리 잡게 되었다. 전동차 소음의 주요 요인은 도어시스템에서 외부로부터 유입되는 공기를 완전히 차단하지 못해서 발생하게 된다. 플러그 도어시스템은 구조상 노이즈 문제에 강한 특성을 가지고 있다. 그러나 현재 플러그 도어는 국산화가 이루어져 있지 않아 국산화를 위해 전기식 플러그 도어를 개발하여 시험을 진행 중에 있다. 본 논문에서는 개발한 전기식 플러그 도어시스템의 개발 내용 및 구성에 대해 다루고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.485-497
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• 2012

Recently, with increasing social interests on noise and vibration induced by railway traffic, the application of floating slab track that can efficiently reduce the railway vibration is increasing. In this study, to more accurately understand the dynamic behavior of the floating slab track, a laboratory mock-up test has been performed, and the static and dynamic behaviors at frequency range near the system resonance frequency were explored. Based on the test results, the design of the floating slab track and the structural analysis model used in the design have been verified. The analytic and test results demonstrate that the dominant frequency of the floating slab track occurs at the frequencies between vertical rigid body mode natural frequency and bending mode natural frequency, and the dominant deformation mode is close to the bending mode. This suggests that in the design of the floating slab track, the bending rigidity of the slab and the boundary conditions at slab joints and slab ends should be taken into consideration. Also, the analytic results by the two-dimensional finite element analysis model using Kelvin-Voigt model, such as static and dynamic deflections and force transmissibility, are found in good agreement with the test results, and thus the model used in this study has shown the reliability suitable to be utilized in the design of the floating slab track.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.289-300
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• 2015

An important source of noise from railways is rolling noise caused by wheel and rail vibrations induced by acoustic roughness at the wheel-rail contact. In conventional approaches to predicting rail noise, the rail is regarded as placed in a free space so that the reflection from the ground is not included. However, in order to predict rail noise close to the rail, the effect of the ground should be contained in the analysis. In this study the rail noise reflected from the ground is investigated using the wavenumber domain finite element and boundary element methods. First, two rail models, one using rail attached to the rigid ground and one using rail located above rigid ground, are considered and examined to determine the rigid ground effect in terms of the radiation efficiency. From this analysis, it was found that the two models give considerably different results, so that the distance between the rail and the ground is an important factor. Second, an impedance condition was set for the ground and the effect of the ground impedance on the rail noise was evaluated for the two rail models.