Numerical Analysis of the Vertical Bogie Accelerations at Failure of the Damper in the Primary Suspension of the Railway Vehicle

Abstract:

Jointed track is still used to build the secondary lines where the maximum speed does not exceed 100-120 km/h. Jointed track construction is based by the fact that the rails are joined end-to-end via the rail joints in order to assure the continuity of the rolling surface of the rails. The rails are jointed using two metal joint bars (fishplates) bolted to the ends of adjoining rails. The rail joints are featured with small gaps to allow the thermic expansion of the rails when the environmental temperature is higher than that during the fitting. In this paper, an analytical model for the rail joint considering the influence of the joint gap is presented and analysed. The model consists of three Euler-Bernoulli beams, two for the rail ends of the rail joint and the third beam for the two joint bars, connected to the rail ends by a Winkler layer. The concept of weakness of the rail joint (rail joint deflection/continuous rail deflection) is introduced and used to analyse the static behaviour of three types of rail joints used at CFR (Romanian Railways). The influence of the joint bars length and bending stiffness, and the influence of the joint gap length upon the rail joint weakness is pointed out.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 957)
• Pages: 43-52
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.957.43
• Online since: June 2019
• Authors: Madalina Dumitriu*
• Keywords: Bogie Acceleration, Cross-Correlation Coefficient, Fault Detection, Railway Vehicle, Suspension

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