Track-Bridge Interaction on High-Speed Railways

Selected Contents: Preface; 1 New evolutions for high speed rail line bridge design criteria and corresponding design procedures; 2 Service limit states for railway bridges in new Design Codes IAPF and Eurocodes; 3 Track-bridge interaction problems in bridge design; 4 Controlling track-structure interaction in seismic conditions; 5 Track-structure interaction and seismic design of the bearings system for some viaducts of Ankara-Istanbul HSRL project; 6 Track structure interactions for the Taiwan High Speed Rail project; 7 Track-bridge interaction - the SNCF experience; 8 Some experiences on track-bridge interaction in Japan; 9 Numerical methods for the analysis of longitudinal interaction between track and structure; 10 Longitudinal track-bridge interaction for load-sequences; 11 Structural analysis of high speed rail bridge substructures. Application to three Spanish case studies; 12 The Italian experience: Two case studies; 13 Rail expansion joints - the underestimated track work material?; 14 Dynamic aspects of the high-speed railway bridge across the Hollandsch Diep; 15 Track-structure interaction in long railway bridges; 16 Track-bridge interaction in railway lines: Application to the study of the bridge over the River Moros; Author index; Subject index