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Structural Strength Analysis and Static Load Test of a Wheelset of Korean High Speed Rail for Measuring Whee/Rail Force (한국형 고속철도차량의 차륜/궤도 작용력 측정을 위한 윤축의 구조강도 해석 및 정하중 시험)

  • 전응식;함영삼;허현무;강부병
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2002.10b
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    • pp.898-903
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    • 2002
  • The railroad is a means of large transportation which has many talents such as a safety and a regularity. That is a results from various confidential performance tests and evaluations of the system. The railroad system consist of various subsystems - vehicle, power supply, signal, communications, track structures, operations, etc. Among them, as an item of safety evaluation there is a measurement of wheel/rail force, so called a measurement of derailment coefficient. This is a very important item because a derailment of a train will bring about a big accident. Especially it is more inportant in high speed rail of which operation speed is over two times as fast as existing rail. In this paper, it is introduced to preprocess the wheelset for measuring wheel/rail force of high speed rail, such as to treat a measuring wheelset, its finite element analysis, adhesion of strain gauges and static load test.

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The case study of wear and defects on the wheel tread for Metro (전동차 차륜 답면의 마모 및 결함에 대한 사례연구)

  • Lee Nam-Jin;Kim Jung-Ha;Kim Chul-Gun;Kim Jin-Tae
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2004.06a
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    • pp.789-797
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    • 2004
  • The wear and defects on the wheel tread are caused by the interface between wheel and rail, the suspension system on bogie, the track condition and etc, which are interacted with complex mechanism. Because of the difficulty of analysis of wheel and rail interaction, the measuring data are necessary for improvement of wheel design and maintenance of train. On this case study, the pattern of wheel wears and defects are presented and lifetime of wheel and the reprofiling period are estimated on a basis of the measured results.

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Effect of Dry Lubrication to Reduce Wheel Flange Wear of Railcars in Railway of Iran (Case Study: Green Plour (GPIG) Passenger Train Coaches)

  • Ashofteh, Roya Sadat;Samari, Farhad
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.65-70
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, the reduction effect of dry (solid) lubrication on wheel flange wear rates is studied. The solid / dry lubricator systems were attached to the most front and furthest back axles of a coach in order to examine the wear behavior of the equipped wheels. An attempt is also made to make a comparison between wear behaviors of these wheel flanges having dry lubrication devices with non-lubricated wheels in other railcars. Finally, a comparison is made between life-cycle of wheels under investigation and other similar wheel types.

Application of dithering control for the railway wheel squealing noise mitigation

  • Marjani, Seyed Rahim;Younesian, Davood
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.347-357
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    • 2019
  • A new methodology for mitigation of the wheel squealing is proposed and investigated based on the dithering control. The idea can be applied in railway lines particularly in urban areas. The idea is clearly presented, and applied to a validated model. A full-scale model including the vehicle, curved track and wheel/rail contact is developed in the time domain to analyze the possibility and level of wheel squeal noise. Comparing the numerical results with a field test, the model is validated in different levels namely i) occurrence, ii) squealing frequency and iii) noise level. Two different approaches are proposed a) dithering of the wheel with piezoelectric patches and b) dithering of the rail with piezoelectric stacks. The noise level as well as the wheel responses is compared after applying the control strategy. A parametric study is carried out and effect of the dithering voltage and frequency on the squealing noise is investigated. It is found that both the strategies perform quite effectively within the saturating threshold of piezoelectric actuators.

Running Safety Analysis of Railway Vehicle depending on Rail Inclination Change on Actual Track of Subway Line No.3 in Seoul (3호선 실제선로 조건에서의 레일경좌 변화에 따른 철도차량 주행안전성 해석)

  • Kim, Tae Geon;Lee, Hi Sung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.130-135
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    • 2016
  • It is very hard to analyze the train derailment safety quantitatively at the curved section because of the diversified affect parameters including the complex interaction between wheel and rail, the train conditions such as the shape of wheel, suspension system, the track conditions such as the radius of curve, cant, transition curve, and the operation conditions, etc. Two major factors related to the running safety of railway vehicle are classified as the railway vehicle and the track condition. In this study, when the railway vehicle passing through curves of actual track condition of subway line NO.3 in seoul ($Yeonsinnae{\leftrightarrow}Gupabal$), the effect that has influence on running safety depending on rail inclination. The analysis result of 1/40 rail inclination condition is more favorable on running safety than other rail inclination conditions because derailment coefficient and wheel unloading ratio are the lowest.

A Study on Characteristics of Driving Control of Crane (크레인의 구동제어 특성에 관한 연구)

  • 이형우;박찬훈;김두형;박경택;이만형
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2001.04a
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    • pp.545-550
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    • 2001
  • This paper studied on the lateral motion and yaw motion of the gantry crane that is used for the automated container terminal. Though several problems are occurred in driving of the gantry crane, they are solved by the motion by the operators. But, if the gantry crane is unmanned, it is automatically controlled without any operator. There are two types, cone and flat type in driving wheel shape. In cone type, the lateral vibration and yaw motion of crane are issued. In flat type, the collision between wheel-flange and rail or the fitting between wheel-flanges and rail is issued. Especially, the collision between wheel-flange and rail is a very critical problem in driving of unmanned gantry crane. To bring a solution to the problems, the lateral and yaw dynamic equations of the driving mechanism of two driving wheels are derived. Then, we investigate the driving characteristics of gantry crane. In this study, the proposed controller, based on Model Based Controller, is used to control the lateral displacement and yaw angle of the gantry crane. And the availability of the proposed controller is showed through the comparison with the result of the proposed controller and PD controller. The simulation results of the driving mechanism, using the Runge-Kutta Method that is one of the numerical analysis methods, are presented in this paper.

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