H Chebli

A coupled periodic FE-BE model for ground-borne vibrations from underground railways

An efficient and modular numerical prediction model is presented to predict vibrations in the free field due to metro trains in the tunnel. The three-dimensional dynamic tunnel-soil interaction problem is solved with a subdomain formulation, using a finite element formulation for the tunnel and a boundary element method for the soil. The periodicity of the tunnel and the soil in the longitudinal direction is exploited using the Floquet transform, limiting the discretization effort to a single bounded reference cell. The Craig-Bampton substructuring technique is used to efficiently incorporate a track in the tunnel. The track-tunnel-soil interaction problem is solved in the frequency-wavenumber domain and the wave field radiated into the soil is computed.