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Finite element model of railway bridge KW51 in Leuven, Belgium

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  • 1. ROR icon KU Leuven

Description

This upload contains a finite element model of railway bridge KW51 in Leuven, Belgium. The model is developed at the Structural Mechanics Section of KU Leuven, using the open source finite element toolbox for MATLAB, Stabil.  It is accompanied by two application examples, one for a quasi-static simulation of a train passage and one for a modal analysis.

The model is complementary to the data set obtained from the monitoring on railway bridge KW51, previously published on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3745914).

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Related works

Is supplemented by
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.3745914 (DOI)

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders
Vibration-based prediction of fatigue damage accumulation in metallic structures by use of virtual sensing 12Q9218N

Software

Programming language
MATLAB

References

  • S. François, M. Schevenels, D., Dooms, M. Jansen, J. Wambacq, G. Lombaert, G. Degrande, and G. De Roeck. Stabil: an educational Matlab toolbox for static and dynamic structural analysis. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 2021:1-18. https://doi.org/10.1002/cae.22391
  • K. Maes, L. Van Meerbeeck, E. Reynders, and G. Lombaert. Validation of vibration-based structural health monitoring on retrofitted railway bridge KW51. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 165(108380):1-24, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2021.108380
  • K. Maes and G. Lombaert. Validation of virtual sensing for the reconstruction of stresses in a railway bridge using field data of the KW51 bridge. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 190(110142):1-16, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2023.110142
  • K. Maes and G. Lombaert. Monitoring railway bridge KW51 before, during, and after retrofitting. ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, 26(3):1-19, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0001668
  • M. van de Velde, K. Maes, and G. Lombaert. Modelling the non-linear behaviour of the pot bearings of railway bridge KW51. ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, 28(6):1-11, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1061/JBENF2.BEENG-6144