International Journal of applied mathematics and computer science

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Number 2 - June 2010
Volume 20 - 2010

A vehicle-track-soil dynamic interaction problem in sequential and parallel formulation

Janusz Kogut, Henryk Ciurej

Abstract
Some problems regarding numerical modeling of predicted vibrations excited by railway traffic are discussed. Model formulation in the field of structural mechanics comprises a vehicle, a track (often in a tunnel) and soil. Time consuming computations are needed to update large matrices at every discrete step. At first, a sequential Matlab code is generated. Later on, the formulation is modified to use grid computing, thereby a significant reduction in computational time is expected.

Keywords
numerical modeling, identification, vibrations prediction

DOI
10.2478/v10006-010-0022-6