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Steel bridges without ballast are very often sources of annoying railway noise. While the insertion of a trough filled with ballast will lead to a noise reduction of about 6 dB(A), it causes an increase of the static mass of the bridge construction of about 30%, which then requires additional measures of reinforcement.
In this paper 4 different systems of noise mitigation are presented, which are based on decoupling and damping effects. A noise reduction of 4.5 dB(A) to 10 dB(A) was achieved with an additional mass of less than 15% of the weight of the bridge and therefore no reinforcement was needed.
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Venghaus, H., Balmer, P., Muncke, M., Poisson, F. (2012). Noise Reduction of Steel Bridges with Non Ballast Tracks. In: Maeda, T., et al. Noise and Vibration Mitigation for Rail Transportation Systems. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, vol 118. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-53927-8_40
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