Papers by Keyword: Railway Freight Car

Abstract: The paper analyzes existing problems in China's freight car color coating, compares the gap between same products abroad, comprehensively analyzes relevant factors which affect freight car coating, uses system theory combined with specification of safe color, visual safety psychology and coating material technology and takes requirements such as type, structure, safety and corporate image into consideration to establish China's railway freight car color coating genealogy. It provides systematical advices for China's railway freight car color coating design and solves problems like single and disorder coating color, poor indicative of safety feature to improve the level of China's railway freight car coating design.

Abstract: In order to improve detection efficiency of casting bolster and side frame of railway freight car, the method to automatically detect railway casting porosity and shrinkage cavity using watershed transformation based on X-ray digital radiography is presented. Firstly, while castings of a bolster and a side frame are scanned by 9Mev X-ray digital radiography system, the DR images are obtained. Then one of interested regions is selected in an image. Defects segmentation is implemented by using watershed transformation algorithm in this paper. Lastly, defects area and occupy rate are acquired by analyzing and computing, so that we can judge the casting quality. The experimental results show that defect regions and contours can be accurately acquired. This method has high robustness and practicality. It improves the efficiency of automated inspection of railway castings.

Abstract: Critical fatigue safety state is investigated on RD2 type axle of China railway freight cars. Attention is paid on the grooves near axle boxes, where more fatigue cracks were early appeared even result in at least six derailed accidents. Load history was obtained by vehicle dynamics simulation combining with on-line inspection. Braking loads and effects of maintenance and off-round of wheels are also incorporated. Semi-elliptical and external circumferential cracks are employed for crack growth simulation. Crack shape change and shear stressing of the semi-elliptical crack are taken into account. New crack growth rate modeling in which covers from cracking threshold to toughness related fracture state is applied for residual life evaluation. Critical fatigue safety state is defined as the crack size from which the axle can be safely operated to next overhaul inspection. Critical crack size is estimated step-by-step with the crack shape change. Results show that the external circumferential crack is more dangerous than the semi-elliptical crack. Application more than two years in production verifies that the present assessment is available and reliable.

Abstract: An efficient finite element (FE) method, multivariate quadratic regression approach, is proposed for calculating the fatigue stress spectrum of engineering structures. The calculation starts from a dynamic load history. A regression function is established as a relation from the concurrent components of structural balance force systems into the structural stress. Parameters of the relation are measured by the stress data using an elastic-plastic FE method under selected groups of balance force systems. The selected systems should cover the possible load range with a similar service condition. After passing the fit effect check, the regression equation can transfer the structural load history into the stress history at the preferred position. Application on the determination of fatigue stress spectrum for the bolster of K6 type bogie has indicated availability of the present approach. Some deficiencies have been overcome from the much time cost by transient approach and the entire elastic material relation by quasi-static approach.