This paper illustrates the phenomenon of the critical speed in the range 100300 km/h. A real explanation and a precise calculation of the critical speed seems to rest an unresolved problem in many cases. Some authors, analogous to “Mach effect”, have attributed this phenomenon to the reaching the Rayleigh wave speed of substructure by trains. But this explanation can’t be thorough in many cases...

The gearbox is the key component of traction drive system a high-speed train. At same time, can easily experience box housing failure due to bearing internal excitation from gear meshing and external motor torque fluctuation, wheel polygon, so on. In order analyze vibration noise gearbox, dynamic model train transmission was established under conditions time-varying stiffness error. A frequency...

In a context of increasing interoperability, several high speed trains, such as ICE, TGV, ETR 500, are likely to run on the same tracks, whereas they have been originally designed for specific and different railway networks. Due to different mechanical properties and structures, the dynamic behaviors, the aggressiveness of the vehicle on the track and the probabilities of exceeding security and...

This paper presents a finite element method (FEM) framework for the dynamic analysis of coupled vehicle—bridge systems under nearfield /far-field ground motions. A train car with two bogies is assumed to be represented sufficiently by a discrete, rigid multi-body system with thirty-eight degrees of freedoms (DOFs). The normal Hertzian contact theory and the tangential Kalker linear theory modif...

Helical springs within the primary suspension are critical components for isolating the whole vehicle system from vibration generated at the wheel/rail contact. As train speeds increase, the frequency region of excitation becomes larger, and a simplified static stiffness can no longer represent the real stiffness property in a vehicle dynamic model. Coil springs in particular exhibit strong int...

We investigate a novel adaptive fault-tolerant control method for time-varying failure in high-speed train computer systems and propose a fault model for such systems. First, the dynamics of high-speed train systems are analyzed and a multiple point-mass model is developed. When actuator outputs deviate from the expected value, a novel adaptive fault-tolerant control method based on Lyapunov st...

Numerical simulation of air flow disturbed around a train body with different angle of train nose and different velocity of high speed train in a very long tunnel have been made. Three-dimensional flow theory is capable of modeling the effects of interest in the tunnel environment. The scale of train is 2500mm×320mm×427mm length×width×heigh, and the scale of tunnel is 150m×10.4m×8.2m length×wid...