The schedule speed is one of the most important elements of railway industry. In korea, Gyeongbu Line’s highest speed is 300km/h. But it’s schedule-speed is no more than about 174km/h from Seoul to Busan. In this study, we analyzed the effect of the proposed improvements in the speed reduction zone using Train Performance Simulation. We found that the improvements can raise the schedule speed from 15 to 20%.

Recently, Seismic design criteria for major domestic structures has been being improved constantly, because the importance of seismic design for major public infrastructures is largely recognized. A preliminary assessment of the seismic performance for the existing rapid-transit railway tunnel, a precedent task before conducting a detailed assessment, can be use as the standard of judgement to decide whether to perform a detailed assessment or not. On the other hand, There are no reasonable study in this area. In this study, an assessment method was presented to evaluate a seismic performance of the existing rapid-transit railway tunnels which seismic design are not performed more economically and rationally.

This study, for the development of next generation high speed railway system of a train which has maximum speed over 400km/h, is to develop core generic environmental technologies which are soundproof technology. Also this technology contains the emitting noise performance of high speed operated trains. The ultimate purpose of this study is to develop a new technology of core sound proof system which is more economical and efficient to cope with the noise increased about 7~9dB as the operating speed increased to 400km/h. In view of technology, this study is to the new soundproof shape design, noise absorbing material development, core soundproof facility development, noise reduction method which contains the aerodynamic characteristics of noise, the concrete bed track reflecting noise reduction, the specifications absorbing block of concrete bed and the installation and management of core soundproof system.

To evaluate residual settlement of the high-speed railway trackbed, it is hard to apply immediately settlement analysis because in-situ ground has additional creep or secondary consolidation behavior. To select the settlement analysis method, this study compared measurement data with hyperbolic, Asaoka, Hoshino method result. All residual settlement analysis method has a tendency to be underestimated because of in-situ creep behavior, however all the method are reliable because R2 is high(over 0.94) and RMSE(Root Mean Square Error) is low. The additional measurement data comparison shows that hyberbolic method is the most appropriate method with high accuracy and application.

Recently, power distributed high-speed train with 430km/h(HEMU-430X) has developed in korea, 2012. However, the development of the train alone can not achieve the speed of high-speed rail system. So it needs the development of infrastructure system. In this paper, the project named “Application & technology development of high-speed rail infrastructure for 400km/h-class” being promoted in december 2010 will be introduced comprehensively.

According as tracks are twisted on running, wheel loads applied to outer rail are increased on curved track. Canting on tracks considering the balance cant allows to have permissible cant deficiency. The test bed area of Ho-Nam high railway is planed for 400km/h Speedup test, cant deficiency is expected to generate centrifugal load in the curve. Therefore, Korean design criteria recommend to increase maximum 20% of wheel load. This study shows that normalized wheel load variations are analyzed its stationary in inner and outer rail when centrifugal forces in outer rail of a curve are caused by curve radius, cant, velocity. Vertical wheel loads are reviewed on the behaviors of each structural element according to the increase of velocity.

신뢰성평가는 고속철도교량에 포함된 불확실성의 영향을 고려하여 정량적 구조안전성을 검토하기 위한 효율적인 방안이며, 신뢰성평가에 기초한 기대생애주기비용은 고속철도교량의 합리적인 안전수준 및 설계기준을 제공할 것이다. 따라서 이 연구에서는 수치해석과 신뢰성평가 결과를 바탕으로 고속철도교량의 기대생애주기비용 및 최적설계 방안을 결정하고자 한다. 이를 위해, 고속철도교량의 표준설계를 기준으로 다양한 설계방안을 설정한 후, 각각의 설계방안에 대해 수치해석을 수행하였으며, 설계강도 한계상태방정식에 따른 신뢰성평가는 수치해석결과를 토대로 외적 불확실성의 영향을 고려하여 수행하였다. 고속철도교량의 기대생애주기비용은 각각의 설계방안에 따른 신뢰성평가 결과를 바탕으로 산정하였다. 또한 최적설계 방안은 산정된 기대생애주기비용을 이용하여 결정하였다. 아울러, 최적설계 방안의 신뢰성평가 결과 및 기대생애주기비용에 대해 내적 불확실성의 영향을 고려하여 검토하였다. 이 연구결과는 고속철도교량의 체계적인 안전성 평가 및 최적 구조설계를 위한 기초자료로 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

70~80년대에 다수의 고속도로 건설과 함께 축적된 고속도로 터널에 대한 설계 및 시공기술에 비하여 철도터널의 설계는 최근들어 활발하게 이루어지고 있는 상황이다. 따라서 고속도로 터널과 철도 터널의 비교시에는 다소간의 시간적인 차이가 있는 것이 사실이다. 본 논문에서는 서로 비슷한 굴착단면적을 갖고 있으나 단면형상에서 차이를 나타내는 고속도로 2차로 자연환기터널과 선로중심간격 4.3m의 복선철도터널에 대해 동일한 조건하에서 지보재를 설치하지 않은 경우와 지보재를 설치한 경우에 대해 수치해석을 수행하여 단면형상 차이에 따른 터널 주변암반에 발생하는 주응력크기 및 축차응력 비교를 통한 터널의 안정성을 비교․분석하였다.