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Calculations of sound radiation associated with 'tunnel boom' from high-speed trains

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posted on 2015-08-19, 14:37 authored by Victor V. Krylov, W. Bedder
This paper presents the results of the theoretical calculations of sound radiation from tunnel portals by air shock waves generated by high-speed trains travelling in underground tunnels. This phenomenon, also known as 'tunnel boom', is associated with very loud and sharp noise, similar to that of cannon shots. This noise may be very disturbing for local residents and wildlife. A simple analytical model has been developed to calculate the generated sound. The model takes into account the ground effect outside the tunnel and uses Rayleigh integral to calculate the sound pressure. The model can predict the acoustic frequency spectra and the waveforms generated at arbitrary distances and directions outside the exit tunnel portal. Numerical results have been produced for several selected tunnels in the UK located along the planned high speed railway route HS2 and identified as being capable of generating tunnel boom. Potential implications of these results are discussed, as well as possible mitigation measures.

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School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

Published in

EuroNoise 2015 Proceedings of the 10th European Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, 'EuroNoise 2015'

Pages

1709 - 1714

Citation

KRYLOV, V.V. and BEDDER, W., 2015. Calculations of sound radiation associated with 'tunnel boom' from high-speed trains. IN: Glorieux, C. (ed.). Proceedings of the 10th European Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, EuroNoise 2015, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 31st May - 3rd June 2015, pp.1709-1714.

Publisher

European Acoustics Association

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This paper is also freely available online at: http://www.conforg.fr/euronoise2015/output_directory/data/articles/000504.pdf.

ISSN

2226-5147

Language

  • en

Location

Maastricht, The Netherlands

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