ABSTRACT
Magnetic-levitating train is a new type of ground transportation means. The first commercial magnetic-levitation line in the world has been built in Pu Dong of Shanghai, China. However, to the authors' knowledge, few tests and analyses about ground vibration and the influences on environment induced by actual magnetic-levitating train have been reported in the open literature. In this paper, the large-scale test results about the magnetic-train in Shanghai are reported. The characters of ground vibration and wave propagation induced by magnetic-train at different speeds are studied. The results indicate that the ground vibration by magneticle-vitating train is less than that caused by wheel-track train. The dramatic increase of ground vibration, which is existed in wheel-track train when the speed exceeds Rayleigh wave, was not found.
