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Railway Induced Vibration Abatement Solutions

Collaborative project

RIVAS final conference

“Vibrations - Ways out of the annoyance”

Deliverable D6.6

Submission date: 31/12/2013

Actual Submission date: 31/12/2013

[Conference delivered on 21/11/2013]

Project Coordinator:

Wolfgang Behr

International Union of Railways (UIC)

[email protected]

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Title RIVAS Final Conference

“Vibrations - Ways out of the Annoyance”, Brussels

Domain WP 6

Date 21 November 2013

Author/Authors Isabelle De Keyzer Partner UIC Document Code RIVAS_UIC_WP6_D6_6_final Version 01 Status Final

Dissemination level:

Document history

Revision Date Description

01 31/12/2013 First Draft

01 31/12/2013 Final Version

Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme

Dissemination Level PU Public PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services) X RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission) Services) CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services)

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1. Fact sheet ..................................................................................................................... 4

2. Summary ....................................................................................................................... 5

3. List of Participants ......................................................................................................... 7

4. Agenda ........................................................................................................................ 11

5. Presentations .............................................................................................................. 13

6. Dissemination Material Used ....................................................................................... 14

7. Photos ......................................................................................................................... 15

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1. FACT SHEET

Event Category Conference

Event Title “Vibrations – Ways out of the annoyance”

Date 21 November 2013

Duration One-day event

Venue Royal Flemish Academy, Hertogsstraat, 1 – rue Ducale, 1, B-1000 Brussels (Belgium)

Dissemination level of the event

Public

Organiser UIC (WP 6) – Isabelle De Keyzer

Co-Organiser and Host UIC

Number of Participants 90

Participants External Database set-up for RIVAS, lists of participants of the Venice conference, Berlin and Brussels Workshops, as well as other contact lists from other related projects and events, UIC and UNIFE member data bases.

Geographical Focus Europe

Charges for the Participants

The conference was free of charge

Meeting Documents Publicly available at www.rivas-project.eu

Information published about the event

• E-mailing campaigns

• UIC Website

• RIVAS Website

• UIC E-News editions n° 307 of 4 September 2012 and n° 312 of 9 October 2012

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2. SUMMARY

The International Union of Railways (UIC) as coordinator of the RIVAS project and the RIVAS consortium partners welcomed 90 participants to the RIVAS Final Conference in Brussels on 21 November 2013.

This event, hosted and moderated by Isabelle De Keyzer (UIC), presented the results of the RIVAS Project and brought together rolling stock experts, track maintenance specialists, suppliers, railway operators, rolling stock experts, and academics.

The conference was the opportunity for the participants to know more about the results achieved by the project and on possible ways to address the issue of vibration mitigation.

Mr Philippe Citroën, Director-General of UNIFE, gave an opening speech emphasising the clear need for innovative vibration reduction technologies in the European context to ensure that the aspiration of expanding rail transport in the EU is not hindered by public opposition on the grounds of vibration.

And Mr Hans Günther Kersten, in his quality of Director of the Rail System Department of UIC, welcomed the participants and gave an introduction to the conference reminding participants that the 2011 EU Transport White Paper foresees global freight transport to increase, as compared to 2005, by around 40% by 2030 and by little over 80% by 2050. Growth will only become reality if railways are able to defend their position in terms of sustainability.

Noise and vibration mitigation have been identified as a top priority for UIC members in the dedicated UIC strategy programmes, such as the UIC Environmental and Sustainability strategy.

UIC has accepted the role of coordinator in the RIVAS project since UIC and its members consider RIVAS as a key element in the railway sector’s effort to reduce the environmental impact of ground-borne vibrations while safeguarding the commercial competitiveness of the railway sector.

In his introduction to the RIVAS project, coordinator Wolfgang Behr (UIC), gave a short explanation on the problems that the project was willing to solve and on the various solutions the rail sector had to find for vehicles, tracks and ground working on innovative solutions for hot-spots, low vibration rolling stock and clear assessment procedures and descriptors.

The presentations of the conference highlighted innovative solutions and approaches for vibration mitigation technologies to help end-users mitigate rail-induced ground-borne vibrations.

WP2 presented their outcomes on “Wheel/rail interface maintenance”: this session gave an overview of the excitation mechanisms and monitoring (Lise Pesqueux, Alstom Transport). Further the methodologies to reduce track defects (Joseph Feng, DB Systemtechnik GmbH) and wheel out-of-roundness (Roger Müller, SBB) in order to mitigate vibrations were presented.

In the next session “WP5 Rolling stock design for reducing ground vibration”, Adam Mirza (Bombardier Transportation Sweden) gave an introduction on the rolling stock aspects on ground vibration and the simulation of vehicle influence was given; this topic was further illustrated by a presentation on the quantification of the influence of vehicle design on ground vibration by measurements (Ph. Huber, PROSE) and by another presentation on how to reduce ground vibration with improved vehicle design (J. Nielsen, CHALMERS).

The session “WP3 Design of low emissive tracks in terms of ground vibration” gave an overview of transmission path mitigation measures in terms of railway induced ground vibrations (R. Garburg, DB AG). Further the impact of under sleeper pads in ballasted and slab track (B. Faure, SNCF) as

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well as the mitigation measures applied to straight lines and particular track sections (E. Bongini, SNCF) were presented.

The afternoon session “WP4 Transmission path mitigation measures” addressed the transmission path mitigation measures studied in RIVAS (G. Lombaert, KU Leuven), and how soft-wave barriers (D. Thompson, ISVR) and stiff-wave barriers (P. Coulier and A. Dijckmans from KU Leuven) could be implemented in different types of soil to mitigate the ground borne vibrations.

Finally the session “WP1 Measures ensuring the applicability of RIVAS in all European countries, addressed the issues of the determination of dynamic soil characteristics and transfer functions to support the evaluation of the efficiency of vibration mitigation measures (G. Degrande, KU Leuven) and gave an overview of the Final evaluation of results from the RIVAS project (D. Stiebel, DB Systemtechnik GmbH). The reference track for optimized vehicle design was also presented (P. de Vos, SATIS).

Ample time was reserved for questions and answers. Intensive exchange between speakers and participants happened during the conference. At the end of the event, Wolfgang Behr briefly summarized the feedback and experience gained during the project, he expressed his gratitude to the consortium members for their commitment and hard work before Isabelle De Keyzer closed the event. A form was distributed at the beginning of the conference to gain feedback from the participants. More than half of the copies were handed in filled in with useful comments.

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3. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Registered participant not attending the conference

Registered participant attending the conference

Unregistered participant attending the conference

# First Name Family Name Company Country 1 Pedro Alves Costa FEUP - University of Porto Portugal 2 Luis Baeza Tecnical University of Valencia Spain

3 Jacco Beens Lloyd's Register Rail Europe The Netherlands

4 Wolfgang Behr DB Systemtechnik GmbH Germany

5 IDOWU WASIU

BELLO SUPOTO MLTIPURPOSE CONCEPTS

NIGERIA

6 Alejandro Berdon Ramos

CDM NV Belgium

7 Eric Berggren EBER Dynamics / Trafikverket Sweden 8 Estelle Bongini SNCF France 9 Pieter Boon Movares Nederland B.V. Netherlands 10 Hans Joachim Braune DB Schenker Rail AG Germany 11 Guillaume Coquel RATP France 12 Pieter Coulier KU Leuven Belgium

13 Cora Cremezi-Charlet SNCF FRANCE

14 Vicente Cuellar CEDEX Spain 15 Maguelonne de Cossart UIC France 16 Thibaut De Gyns Infrabel Belgium 17 Isabelle De Keyzer UIC France

18 Amy de Man edilon)(sedra bv the Netherlands

19 Paul de Vos Satis The Netherlands

20 Karl Degen University of Applied Physics Stuttgart Germany

21 Geert Degrande KU Leuven, Department of Civil Engineering Belgium

22 Francisco Denia Tecnical University of Valencia Spain 23 Arne Dijckmans KU Leuven Belgium 24 Adrian Egger Basler & Hofmann AG Switzerland

25 Alf Ekblad Trafikverket, Swedish Transport Administration Sweden

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26 Baldrik Faure SNCF FRANCE 27 Joseph Feng DB Systemtechnik GmbH Germany 28 Per Finne DELTA Acoustics Denmark 29 Martina Fleckenstein Deutsche Bahn AG Germany 30 Hanfried Flöttmann Eiffage Rail GmbH Germany 31 Christian Frank DB Systemtechnik GmbH Germany 32 Ludwig Friedl RAIL.ONE GmbH Germany

33 Hamady GAMBY Africa Transport and Environment association

Mali

34 Rüdiger Garburg Deutsche Bahn AG Germany 35 Michael Gerber Federal Office for the Environment Switzerland 36 Giuliano Giraudo Lloyd's Register Consulting France 37 Loïc Grau ACOUPHEN France

38 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter

Heiland Ingenieurbüro Dr. Heiland Germany

39 Jan Hlavacek VUZ, a.s. Czech Republic

40 Miroslava Hruzikova Brno University of Technology Czech Republic

41 Philipp Huber PROSE AG Switzerland 42 Thomas Jaquet GERB Germany 43 Qiyun Jin ISVR, University of Southampton UK 44 Rick Jones UK 45 Mayasi Kamu Swiss Federal Railways switzerland 46 Bernhard Koch DB Netz AG Germany

47 Rostislav Kolmacka VUZ Czech republic

48 Arnold Koopman TNO The Netherlands

49 Stefan Kuschel TÜV Rheinland Consulting GmbH Germany 50 Udo Lenz I.B.U. GmbH Germany

51 Fabien LETOURNEAUX

SYSTRA FRANCE

52 Geert Lombaert KU Leuven Belgium 53 Christian Madshus NGI Norway 54 Vincent Marant Acusttel Spain 55 florence margiocchi sncf France 56 Matthias Mather Deutsche Bahn AG Germany 57 Adam Mirza Bombardier Transportation Sweden

58 Dr.-Ing. Michael

Mistler Ingenieurbüro Dr. Heiland Germany

59 Miguel Angel MORCILLO CIDAUT Spain 60 Roger Müller SBB Switzerland 61 Jan Mys Infrabel Belgium

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62 Wojciech Nawrat RAIL.ONE GmbH Germany 63 Katrin Nielsen Trafikverket Sweden 64 Jens Nielsen Chalmers University of Technology Sweden 65 Katrin Nielsen Trafikverket Sweden 66 Damien Nivon SNCF France

67 Karin Noren-Cosgriff NGI Norway

68 Koen Ophalffens CDM Belgium

69 Graham Parry ACCON UK Limited United Kingdom

70 Charles PETIT SATEBA France 71 Thomas Peuvrel STIB-MIVB Belgium 72 Arnold Pieringer RAIL.ONE GmbH Germany 73 Julia Plu SNCF France 74 Stefan Potocan Getzner Werkstoffe GmbH Austria 75 Rodolphe POTVIN SNCF France 76 Alain Robinet SNCF France 77 Dr. Jörg Rothhämel DB Systemtechnik Germany 78 Werner Ruecker BAM Berlin Germany 79 luc schillemans tractebel engineering belgium

80 Philippe Schneider SBB Infrastruktur (Swiss Federal Railways) Switzerland

81 Wout Schwanen M+P Netherlands 82 Stefan Schwieger Eiffage Rail GmbH Germany 83 Ather Sharif CED Environmental UK

84 Trevor Smith Tiflex Ltd United Kingdom

85 Bert Stallaert D2S International Belgium 86 Michael Steenbergen TU Delft Netherlands 87 Dorothée Stiebel DB Systemtechnik GmbH Germany 88 Sylvette Thomassin Résonance Ingénieurs-Conseils SA Switzerland 89 David Thompson ISVR, University of Southampton UK

90 Martin van den Berg Ministry of Infrastructure an d environment

netherlands

91 Michael Vanstraelen CDM Belgium 92 Ward Verhelst INFRABEL Belgium 93 Nicolas VINCENT VIBRATEC France 94 Eliam Vlijm Witteveen+Bos Netherlands 95 David Waddington University of Salford (USAL) UK 96 Walid WASMINE ACOUPHEN FRANCE 97 Michael Weber Calenberg Ingenieure GmbH Germany 98 James Woodcock University of Salford UK 99 Nils Yntema ProRail Netherlands 100 Hans Günther Kersten UIC France

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101 Henning Schwarz DB AG Germany 102 Gerard Busscher DPA Netherlands 103 Andrea Demadonna UNIFE Belgium 104 Philippe CITROEN UNIFE Belgium 105 Pierre-Etienne Gautier SYSTRA France 106 Arnold Pieringer RailOne Germany 107 Hamid Massoumi D2S Belgium 108 Wolfgang Sowitsch Plasser + Theurer Germany

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4. AGENDA Moderator: Isabelle De Keyzer (UIC)

08:30 – 09:00 Registration and welcome coffee

Albert II Auditorium

09:00 – 09:30 Opening and introduction

Welcome

I. De Keyzer, UIC

The position of the European Railway Industry on ground borne vibrations

Ph. Citroën, Director General of UNIFE

Opening address HG Kersten, Director of Rail System Department of UIC

General introduction on RIVAS W. Behr, Technical Coordinator, UIC

09:30 – 10:30

WP2 Wheel/rail interface maintenance:

Reducing vibrations at source

Overview of the excitation mechanisms and monitoring L. Pesqueux, Alstom

Reducing track defects to mitigate vibrations J. Feng, DB

Reducing wheel OOR to mitigate vibrations R. Müller, SBB

10:30 – 10:40 Question and Answer Session

Marble Room

10:40– 11:00

Coffee break


11:00 – 12:00 WP5 Rolling stock design for reducing ground vibration

Introduction to the rolling stock aspects on ground vibration and the simulation of vehicle influence

A. Mirza (Bombardier)

Quantifying the influence of the vehicle design on ground vibration by measurements.

P. Huber (Prose)

Reducing ground vibration with improved vehicle design J. Nielsen (Chalmers)


12:10 – 13:10 WP3 Design of low emissive tracks in terms of ground vibration

Transmission path mitigation measures in terms of railway induced ground vibrations

R. Garburg (DB)

Under sleeper pads impact in ballasted and slab track B. Faure (SNCF)

Track mitigation measures: From straight lines to particular track sections

E. Bongini (SNCF)


13:20 – 14:30 Networking lunch

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14:30 – 15:30 WP4 Transmission path mitigation measures

Transmission path mitigation measures studied in RIVAS G. Lombaert (KU Leuven)

Soft wave barriers for railway induced ground vibration D. Thompson, (ISVR)

Stiff wave barriers for railway induced ground vibration P. Coulier and A. Dijckmans, (KU Leuven)

15:30 – 15:40

Question and Answer Session

Marble Room

15:40 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00 WP1 Measures ensuring the applicability of RIVAS in a ll European countries

Determination of dynamic soil characteristics and transfer functions to support the evaluation of the efficiency of vibration mitigation measures

G. Degrande (KU Leuven)

Final evaluation of results from the RIVAS project D. Stiebel (DB)

Reference track for optimized vehicle design P. de Vos (SATIS)

17:00 – 17:20 Last question and answer Session

Wrap up and conclusions

All speakers

W. Behr (UIC)

I. De Keyzer (UIC)

17:20 End of the conference

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5. PRESENTATIONS

All presentations are publicly available at www.rivas-project.eu:

[http://www.rivas-project.eu/index.php?id=8]

1. General Introduction on RIVAS – W. Behr, UIC

2. Overview of the excitation mechanisms and monitoring L. Pesqueux, Alstom

3. Reducing track defects to mitigate vibrations – J. Feng, DB

4. Reducing wheel OOR to mitigate vibrations – R. Müller, SBB

5. Introduction to the rolling stock aspects on ground vibration and the simulation of vehicle influence – A. Mirza, Bombardier

6. Quantifying the influence of the vehicle design on ground vibration by measurements – Ph. Huber, Prose.

7. Under sleeper pads impact in ballasted and slab track – R. Garburg, DB

8. Very soft rail pads impact in ballasted track – B. Faure, SNCF

9. Track mitigation measures: From straight lines to particular track sections - E. Bongini, SNCF

10. Transmission path mitigation measures studied in RIVAS – G. Lombaert, KU Leuven

11. Soft wave barriers for railway induced ground vibration – D. Thompson, ISVR

12. Stiff wave barriers for railway induced ground vibration - P. Coulier and A. Dijckmans, KU Leuven

13. Determination of dynamic soil characteristics and transfer functions to support the evaluation of the efficiency of vibration mitigation measures – G. Degrande, KU Leuven

14. Final evaluation of results from the RIVAS project – D. Stiebel, DB

15. Reference track for optimized vehicle design – P. de Vos, Satis

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6. DISSEMINATION MATERIAL USED

Above, left and right: RIVAS roll-ups Below: RIVAS final brochure.

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7. PHOTOS

Photo 1 – Welcome address given by Mr

Philippe Citroën, General Manager, UNIFE

Photo 2 – Opening speech given by Mr

Hans Günther Kersten, Director of the Rail System Department, UIC

Photo 3 – Welcome by Dr Wolfgang Behr,

UIC, RIVAS Coordinator (left) and MsIsabelle De Keyzer, UIC, WP leader

dissemination (right)

Photo 4 – Inside the meeting room

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Photo 5 – From left to right: Mr Joseph

Feng (DB AG), Mr Lise Pesqueux (Alstom Transport SA),

Mr Roger Müller (SBB).

Photo 6 – RIVAS group picture

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