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EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL MODAL ANALYSIS OF A CONCRETE HIGH SPEED TRAIN RAILWAY BRIDGE J. Maeck, G. De Roeck Department of Civil Engineering, Division of Structural Mechanics, K.U. Leuven, W. de Croylaan 2, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium Abstract Train induced vibrations are a major environmental concern both in Europe and China. Besides the effect of vibrations due to passenger and freight trains and subways at relatively low speed, the study of the vibrational impact of high speed trains is of high interest. In Belgium, for example, new high speed train lines connect Brussels with Paris and London, while extensions to Amsterdam and Cologne are presently under construction. In China, this problem will become equally important in the near future, as a high speed train connection is planned between Beijing and Shanghai. The partners in this research project are involved in the development of numerical models to predict traffic induced vibrations. The development, validation and practical use of these models rely on in situ vibration measurements. A preliminary measurement campaign was undertaken on a high speed train bridge, with sensors on the bridge as well as on the rails, to be able to get more insight in force transfer from train to construction. Keywords: high speed train, dynamic testing, modal analysis Introduction The construction under consideration is a railway bridge for the high speed train between Paris and Brussels. The bridge is situated near the Belgian village Antoing, close to the Belgian-French border. The total bridge consists of successively five prestressed concrete bridges of each 50m span, a mixed steel- concrete bowstring bridge, which is built over a river, and a last 50m span concrete bridge. The bridge tests and simulations can be situated in a bilateral research program (BIL98/09) between the Belgian universities K.U. Leuven and V.U.Brussel, and the Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. Aim of the program is to study the train-structu