Database for RailRad calculation method for simulating sound radiated by railway track vibrations

This dataset contains precalculated acoustic transfer functions for efficiently calculating the sound radiated by railway track vibrations.

The transfer functions contained in each file describe the complex sound pressure produced at a number of receiver locations given a unit velocity at a source element on the railway track surface, per frequency and at a fixed wavenumber along the track.

Four different acoustic geometries are included: (1) a standard UIC60 rail in free space, (2) the rail in an acoustic half space, (3) the rail located above a slab track surface, and (4) identical geometry to (3) but including an acoustically hard hull of a passenger train geometry above the track.

More information about the exact location of source and receiver coordinates can be found in the .hdf5 files, in the subgroup 'info'. The transfer functions themselves are located in the dataset 'tfs', which are matrices of size (Number of frequency lines x number of sources x number of receivers).

More information can be found here https://github.com/janniktheyssen/railrad

This collection of databases is part of ongoing work at CHARMEC / Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (https://www.charmec.chalmers.se/). Parts of the study have been funded from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme in the In2Track3 project under grant agreements No 101012456. The computations were enabled by resources provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC), partially funded by the Swedish Research Council through grant agreement no. 2018-05973.