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Effect of Subsequent Subgrade on Seismic Response of the High-Speed Railway Track–Bridge System
As an important part of the boundary conditions on both sides of the high-speed railway track–bridge system, the seismic response of the subgrade structure is different from that of the bridge structure. This difference has become increasingly significant with the widespread adoption of continuous welded rail technology in bridge construction. Therefore, investigating the seismic response of the bridge system, with a specific focus on the longitudinal constraint effects of the subsequent subgrade track structure, is of paramount importance. Utilizing finite element software, two distinct bridge models are developed: one incorporating the subsequent subgrade track structure and another excluding it. Through nonlinear time history analysis under varying seismic intensities, it is demonstrated that the longitudinal constraint of the subsequent subgrade track structure mitigates the longitudinal displacements and internal forces in critical components of the high-speed railway track–bridge system. Concurrently, acknowledging the heightened complexity and cost associated with post-earthquake repairs of the bridge structure compared to subgrade structure, this study uses a risk transfer connecting beam device. This device can redirect seismic damage from bridge structure to subgrade structure, thereby potentially reducing post-seismic repair expenses for the bridge.
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Design of High-Speed Railway Turnouts
High-speed turnouts, a key technology for high-speed railways, have a great influence on the safe and stable running of high-speed trains.Design of High-Speed Railway Turnouts: Theory and Applications, comprehensively introduces the technical characteristics and requirements of high-speed turnouts, including design theories and methods of turnout.
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Railway Territorialities
Abstract This article examines transportation infrastructures’ capacity to produce and transform social space through a focus on the contested history of railway development in Valsusa, Italy. I draw on participant observation and interviews with local residents and activists during ethnographic fieldwork in 2014–2015. I first describe how railways helped form modern sociality in Valsusa in the twentieth century. Subsequently, I explore contrasting topological effects of a projected high-speed rail through the valley. For planners envisioning a trans-European space of exchange, the railway is a powerful way to “shrink” space; for local residents, this implies reducing Valsusa to a traffic “corridor.” Yet their protest generates new social relations and knowledges, giving rise to a notion of “territory” as unbound and connected to a transnational space of resistance to capitalist expansion.
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Time to climb on board
The current surge of interest in high speed rail has taken a long time to gather momentum since the world's first dedicated high speed railway, the Tokaido Shinkansen, opened in Japan in 1964. Today, a real network is rapidly emerging in Europe, currently involving seven countries but with several more waiting in the wings. In Asia, Japan has expanded its network to around 1,500 miles, Korea has built its first line, and China is well on the way to having the world's largest high speed network.
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On the wrong track: The high-speed rail link will spell disaster for the countryside--and for Cameron
The Bicester with Whaddon Chase, which can trace its origins back to 1800, will lose an estimated 18 square miles of its territory as a result of a proposed high-speed rail link called HS2. The irony is almost unbearable.
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The Speed Merchant
With its innovative lightweight train of 1957, Fairbanks-Morse had the right concept at the wrong time. Patrick B. McGinnis attempted to find passenger trains that could take curves at higher speeds without undue loss of passenger comfort.
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