In congested cities the number of railway lines has rapidly increased. The close vicinity of rail tracks to buildings often gives rise to conflict in respect of the transmission of noise and vibration to people or sensitive equipment. Vibration attenuation can be safely achieved by well designed vibration control systems applied preferably to the source but also to the receiver. In both cases, ...

High-speed railways (HSRs) are established all over the world owing to their advantages of high speed, ride comfort, and low vibration noise. A ballastless track slab is a crucial part HSR, its working condition directly affects safe operation train. With increasing train time, slabs suffer from various defects such as warping arching well interlayer disengagement defect. These will eventually ...

Recently, slab track systems have arisen as a safer and more sustainable option for high speed railway infrastructures, compared to traditional ballasted tracks. Integrating Wireless Sensor Networks within these infrastructures can provide structural health related data that can be used to evaluate their degradation and to not only detect failures but also to predict them. The design of such sy...