ABSTRACT
As part of environmental considerations vibrations caused by traffic infrastructure are of in-creasing importance. In this context there was for example an EU research and development project called RIVAS (Railway Induced Vibration Abatement Solutions). Together with Keller Holding, Offenbach, Germany as one of the members of this project, BAUGRUND DRESDEN together with the Geotechnical Institute of the Technical University of Dresden conducted large-scale field tests and numerical investigations, to firstly demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of an installation method developed by Keller in conjunction with available damping materials and to validate numerical models, such that they can be used in practice for feasibility studies and design purposes. These FE based analyses are described in the paper at hand together with an application example where the vibrations induced by train traffic are modelled by means of actually moving loads.
