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Ultrasonic modelling of open trenches used as seismic barriers against traffic-induced ground vibrations
journal contribution
posted on 2018-01-16, 11:46 authored by Abdelhalim Azbaid El Ouahabi, Victor V. KrylovVarious types of seismic barriers are used in practice to protect buildings from traffic-induced ground vibrations, mainly from propagating Rayleigh surface waves. One of the widely used types of seismic barriers are open trenches. Experimental investigations of real size trenches at frequencies typical for traffic-induced ground vibrations, i.e. at 10-100 Hz, are costly and time consuming. In the present work, an alternative and much less expensive approach is proposed - a reduced-scale experimental modelling using ultrasonic Rayleigh wave propagation over very small-scale replicas of real trenches. Experimental investigations of propagation of Rayleigh wave pulses with the central frequency of 1 MHz, which corresponds to the value of scaling factor of about 1:1000, have been carried out for a single trench and for periodic combinations of trenches. The results of the measurements of transmission and reflection coefficients of Rayleigh waves for different incident angles show that, for typical values of the parameters used in the experiments, periodic combinations of trenches represent efficient seismic barriers against traffic-induced ground vibrations.
Funding
The research reported here has been supported by the EPSRC grant EP/K038214/1.
History
School
- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department
- Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Published in
Noise Theory and PracticeVolume
3Issue
4Pages
5 - 13Citation
AZBAID EL OUAHABI, A. and KRYLOV, V.V., 2017. Ultrasonic modelling of open trenches used as seismic barriers against traffic-induced ground vibrations. Noise Theory and Practice, 3(4), pp. 5-13.Publisher
Acoustics Design InstituteVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
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/Acceptance date
2017-12-12Publication date
2017Notes
This paper was published in the open access journal Noise Theory and Practice available at http://www.noisetp.com/en/home/.ISSN
2412-8627Publisher version
Language
- en