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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-A.2012.36.5.579

Weight Reduction of an Urban Railway Axle Based on EN Standard  

Han, Soon-Woo (New Transportation Systems Research Center, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
Son, Seung-Wan (New Transportation Systems Research Center, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
Jung, Hyun-Seung (New Transportation Systems Research Center, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A / v.36, no.5, 2012 , pp. 579-590 More about this Journal
Abstract
Weight reduction of a railway axle, which is one of heaviest parts in an urban railway vehicle, is discussed in this paper. A wheelset of a railway vehicle is very important with regard to railway safety, and its structural strength should always be considered when attempting to reduce the railway axle weight. In this work, the weight of the axles of a trailer bogie and a motor bogie of the Korean EMU was reduced by replacing solid axles with hollow axles. On the basis of the EN standard for railway axle design, the strength of existing solid axles was analyzed and the required bore size of a hollow axle was determined. It is shown that the weight of the concurrent axle of the Korean EMU can be reduced by up to 20% with a very small decrease in the structural strength. Finite element analyses were also carried out to verify the design result for lightweight hollow axles.
Keywords
Weight Reduction; Railway Axle; EN Standard; Stress Analysis;
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