Spatial mapping relationship model of subgrade disease and track geometry for high-Speed railway

Abstract

A highly efficient and accurate mapping relationship model of subgrade disease and track geometry is significant for determining criterion of subgrade deformation and evaluating operation safety of High-speed Railway. In this paper, an innovative spatial mapping relationship model (SMRM) is proposed for describing track spatial geometry under subgrade disease of differential settlement and frost heave. Starting from analysing the theoretical interaction mechanism between subgrade and ballastless track, and presenting the flowchart of SMRM and its implementation process are described in detail. The good accuracy and applicability of SMRM method is verified based on the finite element model (FEM) and scale model experiment. The results indicate that it can better simulate the spatial characteristic of above mapping relationship than traditional theoretical model and avoid complicated and time-consuming FEM analysis process. It has high accuracy and reliability for the most application scenarios. The proposed method also can analyse the influences of others’ diseases on track geometry as long as the disease description function is available.