The Optimization of the Design of a Railway Wheel in Terms of the Acoustic Radiation under the Vertical Excitation

Abstract:

Railway wheel acoustic radiation takes a large proportion of the wheel-rail noise . This paper mainly focuses the ways to reduce railway wheel acoustic radiation to control wheel-rail acoustic radiation, and ultimately to reduce the railway environmental noise. In this paper, Optimization mathematical model of wheel acoustic radiation is built according to the wheel vibration and acoustic radiation theory, and obtaining the section optimization and acoustic radiation power of wheel by drawing up the genetic algorithm (GA) program and analyzing the acoustic radiation of the wheel according to Finite element and boundary element model. The result shows that the optimized acoustic power is reduced to some extent, even by 2dB at the peak point within 5000Hz. Since high-speed railways are put into operation in China, it has been more convenient for people to go out. However, serious railway environmental noise occurs by the way. The noise produced when the train is running affects not only passengers and working staff on the train, but also environment and residents around the railway. For this reason, to reduce the noise with proper measures is good for environment protection, sustained and healthy development of rail transportation as well. According to wheel-rail noise theory, the main approaches to reduce noise as follows:(1) Adopt damped wheel. (2) Add rubber isolation layer between tread and web of the wheel to form resilient wheel. (3) Optimize the wheel shape. (4) Reduce acoustic radiation efficiency of the wheel. This paper discusses how to reduce acoustic radiation of the wheel and railway environmental noise according to optimize the wheel shape by mainly analyzing the wheel of high frequency radiation noise.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 629)
• Pages: 548-551
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.629.548
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Bin Zhang, Lin Ya Liu, Wen Jie Shao
• Keywords: Noise Reduction, Optimization Design, Railway Environmental Noise, Wheel Acoustic Radiation

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