scholarly journals Vehicle‐Bridge‐Interaction in the Dynamic Calculation of Railway Bridges: Case Study and Dynamic Analysis for 75 Existing Simply Supported Bridge Structures of the Austrian Railway Network

ce/papers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 109-114
Author(s):  
Bernhard Glatz ◽  
Josef Fink
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangdong Yu ◽  
Yongle Deng ◽  
Bin Yan

Author(s):  
Xavier Franch-Auladell ◽  
Mateu Morillas-Torné ◽  
Jordi Martí-Henneberg

ABSTRACTThis paper proposes a methodology for quantifying the territorial impact on population distribution of the railway. The central hypothesis is that access to railway services provides the best-connected areas with a long-term comparative advantage over others that are less accessible. Carrying out a historical analysis and providing comparable data at the municipal level allows us to determine the extent to which the railway has fostered the concentration of population within its immediate surroundings. The case study presented here is that of Spain between 1900 and 2001, but the same methodology could equally be applied to any other country for which the required data are available. In this case, key data included a Geographic Information System with information about both the development of the railway network and census data relating to total population at the municipal level. The results obtained suggest the relevance of this methodology, which makes it possible to identify the periods and areas in which this influence was most significant.


2010 ◽  
Vol 26-28 ◽  
pp. 620-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhan Wei Du ◽  
Yong Jian Yang ◽  
Yong Xiong Sun ◽  
Chi Jun Zhang ◽  
Tuan Liang Li

This paper presents a modified Ant Colony Algorithm(ACA) called route-update ant colony algorithm(RUACA). The research attention is focused on improving the computational efficiency in the TSP problem. A new impact factor is introduced and proved to be effective for reducing the convergence time in the RUACA performance. In order to assess the RUACA performance, a simply supported data set of cities, which was taken as the source data in previous research using traditional ACA and genetic algorithm(GA), is chosen as a benchmark case study. Comparing with the ACA and GA results, it is shown that the presented RUACA has successfully solved the TSP problem. The results of the proposed algorithm are found to be satisfactory.


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