Enhanced INterfaces and train categories FOR dynamic compatibility assessment of EUropean railway BRIDGEs

Project Information

InBridge4EU

Grant agreement ID: 101121765

DOI

10.3030/101121765

EC signature date 8 August 2023

Start date 1 September 2023

End date 31 August 2026

Funded under

• Climate, Energy and Mobility

Total cost

No data

EU contribution

€ 928 114,51

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO
Portugal

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (5)

D&E&C plan

Plan for the dissemination and exploitation including communication activities.

Project coordination mid-term report

Interim report with the quality assurance activities, overview of the implemented/implementable results and D&E&C activities carried out to date, including organization of meetings and workshops, publications, participation in conferences, among others.

Revised acceleration criteria for railway bridges with ballastless tracks

Report with the results related with the TBI numerical simulations to analyse the relation between deck vertical acceleration and derailment in bridges with ballastless tracks.

Revision of the acceleration limits in bridges with ballasted tracks

Report with the results related with the TBI. Description of application scenarios, Investigation results on additional parameters as frequency and non-resonance vibrations.

Revision of damping

Report with the damping estimations carried out within WP4, including justification for the damping variations and study of the parameters that most influence the estimated values.

Data Management Plan (1)

Data management plan

Report with the data management plan for the project.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Efficient simulation of the soil–structure interaction on the dynamic response of a portal frame railway bridge

Author(s): J. Chordà-Monsonís, J.C. Sánchez-Quesada, E. Moliner, A. Romero, P. Galvín, M.D. Martínez-Rodrigo
Published in: Structures, Issue 82, 2026, ISSN 2352-0124
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.ISTRUC.2025.110600

CALDINTAV: A simple software for dynamic analysis of high-speed railway bridges using the semi-analytical modal method

Author(s): Khanh Nguyen, José M. Goicolea
Published in: Software Impacts, Issue 22, 2024, ISSN 2665-9638
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpa.2024.100700

Train-track-bridge interaction effects on highly skewed girder bridges of short-to-medium spans for increasing operating speeds

Author(s): Juan Carlos Sánchez-Quesada, Emma Moliner, Antonio Romero, Pedro Galvín, María de los Dolores Martínez-Rodrigo
Published in: Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 2025, ISSN 1573-2479
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/15732479.2024.2422495

Ballasted Track on Vibrating Bridge Decks: Physical Mechanisms, Empirical Findings, and a Proposal for Assessment

Author(s): Matthias Baeßler, Patrick Simon
Published in: International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 0219-4554
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd
DOI: 10.1142/S0219455425400243

Data-Driven Relationship for Reduction Factor of Ballasted Railway Bridge Deflections Due to Load Distribution Within Track

Author(s): Reza Allahvirdizadeh, Emma Moliner, Pedro Museros
Published in: International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 2024, ISSN 0219-4554
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd
DOI: 10.1142/S0219455425400176

Critical analysis of the current Eurocode deck acceleration limit for evaluating running safety in ballastless railway bridges

Author(s): Gonçalo Ferreira, Pedro Montenegro, Andreas Andersson, António Abel Henriques, Raid Karoumi, Rui Calçada
Published in: Engineering Structures, Issue 312, 2024, ISSN 0141-0296
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2024.118127

Conference proceedings (13)

SLS assessment of vertical acceleration in multi-track High-Speed railway bridges across Europe: a comparative study of 2D and 3D approaches

Author(s): Carlos Rodrigo Villar, Víctor Roda Casanova, Antonio Romero Ordóñez, Pedro Galvín Barrera, Mª Dolores MartínezRodrigo
Published in: 2025
Publisher: CMMoST2025

Updated Damping Guidelines for Railway Bridges: Insights From the InBridge4EU Project

Author(s): P.A. Montenegro, E.-A. Laligant, F. Pimenta, A. Silva, O. Ahmed, C. Laurent
Published in: Civil-Comp Conferences, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, Issue 10, 2025
Publisher: Civil-Comp Press
DOI: 10.4203/CCC.10.2.8

Level 2-Calculations of Dynamic Vehicle-Bridge Compatibility for Determining Permissible Speeds in the Railway Network (Germany)

Author(s): Ronny Behnke, Günther Grunert, Xiaohan Liu
Published in: Proceedings of the 9th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS2024), 2024
Publisher: Scipedia

A New Algorithm To Determine Critical Speeds on Ballasted High-Speed Railway Bridges

Author(s): G. Ferreira, P.A. Montenegro, A.A. Henriques, R. Calçada
Published in: Civil-Comp Conferences, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, Issue 10, 2025
Publisher: Civil-Comp Press
DOI: 10.4203/CCC.10.2.6

InBridge4EU project for bridge dynamics: towards interoperability in the European railway network

Author(s): Galvín, P. Goicolea, J. M. Martínez de la Concha, A. Martínez Rodrigo, M.D. Moliner, E. Naranjo, J. Rodrigo, C. Romero, A. Tarque, N.
Published in: Proceedings of the DinEst: 3rd Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2024
Publisher: DinEst

Study of the Soil-Structure Interaction on a Portal Frame Railway Bridge Through Experimental Validation

Author(s): J. Chordà-Monsonís, J.C. Sánchez-Quesada, E. Moliner, A. Romero, P. Galvín, M.D. Martínez-Rodrigo
Published in: Civil-Comp Conferences, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, Issue 10, 2025
Publisher: Civil-Comp Press
DOI: 10.4203/CCC.10.2.2

Assessment of Ballast Stability in Multi-Span Simply-Supported Girder Bridges for Increasing Operational Speeds

Author(s): J.C. Sánchez-Quesada, E. Moliner, J. Chordà-Monsonís, A. Romero, P. Galvín, M.D. Martínez-Rodrigo
Published in: Civil-Comp Conferences, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, Issue 10, 2025
Publisher: Civil-Comp Press
DOI: 10.4203/CCC.10.2.3

Damping Assessment on Railway Bridges Based on an Extensive Experimental Database Framed on the InBridge4EU Project

Author(s): P.A. Montenegro, R. Silva, F. Pimenta, E. Laligant, C. Dos Santos, C. Laurent
Published in: Civil-Comp Conferences, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance, Issue 7, 2024
Publisher: Civil-Comp Press
DOI: 10.4203/ccc.7.15.3

New Perspectives on Running Safety in Ballastless Railway Bridges

Author(s): G. Ferreira, P.A. Montenegro, A.A. Henriques, R. Cal�ada
Published in: Civil-Comp Conferences, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance, Issue 7, 2024
Publisher: Civil-Comp Press
DOI: 10.4203/ccc.7.15.8

Influence of the soil-structure coupling on the dynamic behaviour of a portal frame railway bridge

Author(s): Chordà-Monsonís, J.; Sánchez-Quesada, J.C.; Moliner, E.; Romero, A.; Galvín, P.; Martínez Rodrigo, M.D.
Published in: Proceedings of the DinEst: 3rd Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2024
Publisher: DinEst

Prediction of Damping Ratios of Existing Railway Bridges Using Regression Methods and Machine Learning

Author(s): Ronny Behnke, Gunther Grunert, Xiaohan Liu
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2025
Publisher: ECCOMAS

Simplified dynamic analysis of high-speed railway bridges considering bending and torsional effects

Author(s): Nicola Tarque, Andrea Tapia, Alfredo Cámara, Khanh Nguyen, José M. Goicolea
Publisher: 16th International Conference on Vibration Problems (ICOVP-2025) & 11th International Conference on Wave Mechanics and Vibrations (WMVC-2025)

Influence of nonsymmetric train loading in the dynamics of high-speed bridges

Author(s): Pedro Museros, Carlos Riascos
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2025
Publisher: ECCOMAS

Thesis and dissertations (3)

Modelling of the dynamic behaviour of ballast on railway bridges

Author(s): José Maria Menezes
Published in: 2024
Publisher: University of Porto

Análisis del comportamiento dinámico de puentes de ferrocarril de líneas Europeas para la identificación de parámetros críticos y la mejora de la interoperabilidad ferroviaria del transporte de viajeros y mercancías

Author(s): Carlos Rodrigo Villaror
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Universitat Jaume I

Advancing the Eurocode Normative Criteria for High-Speed Railway Bridges

Author(s): Gonçalo Ferreira
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Univeristy of Porto

Book chapters (4)

Modal Damping Estimations of Railway Bridges Under Traffic Excitation on InBridge4EU Project

Author(s): E. Laligant, C. Laurent, O. Ahmed, P. A. Montenegro
Published in: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-96106-9_54

On the Reassessment of Bridge Superstructure Vibrations for High-Speed Traffic

Author(s): Patrick Simon, Matthias Baeßler
Published in: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-96106-9_53

Time-Frequency Analysis of Railway Bridges Forced and Free Vibrations by Wavelet Transform

Author(s): P. Galvín, A. Romero, M. Solís, E. Moliner, D. Cantero, M. D. Martínez-Rodrigo
Published in: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-96106-9_52

Review of Ballasted Track Destabilization on Shake Table Tests

Author(s): Matthias Baessler, Patrick Simon
Published in: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-96106-9_62