this paper studies the key issue of fault tolerance for actively controlled railway wheelsets. It assesses failure modes in such systems, with a focus on actuator failures, and consequence of those hardware failures. It seeks to establish the necessary basis for control reconfiguration to ensure system stability and performance in the event of a faulty, without the need for hardware redundancie...

Abstract. This article attempts to analyze the Hopf bifurcation behavior of a railway wheelset in the presence of dead-zone and yaw damper nonlinearities. A model that is more precise than Yang and Ahmadian is investigated. Using Bogoliubov-Mitropolsky averaging method and critical speed, the amplitude of the limit cycle in the presence of the mentioned nonlinearities is taken into consideratio...

In the UK, the use of similar vehicle types by a range of privatised operators gives the opportunity to assess the influence of different route conditions and maintenance practices on wheel tread damage, wheelset life and costs. This paper investigates these influences, using data obtained directly from the train operators and maintainers. By disseminating best practice it is expected that whee...

in this paper the effects of non-linearity of suspension on dynamic behavior of a railway wheelset has been studied. this wheelset has four degrees of freedom that with two constraints it has reduced to two degrees of freedom. vermeulen-johnson theory has been used to calculate contact forces between wheel and rail. in this study the creep coefficients have considered constant. any linearizatio...

The complexity of railway vehicle structures has been part an evolutionary process for almost two hundred years. Challenges such as increased weight, maintenance, higher costs and energy consumption have become common. vision future vehicles is to reduce complexity, hence enable simpler maintenance cost, course various research challenges arise from this. In fact, a number papers in the enginee...

The design of European two–axle freight wagons can be traced back to the 1890’es. It has been and still is widely used in Europe because it is simple, rugged and cheap in price and maintenance. The internationally approved suspension for two–axle freight wagons in Europe is known as the UIC standard suspension (see Fig. 1). Each wagon has four of these suspensions. They consist of a leaf spring...

The railway industry has focused on the improvement of maintenance through use novel technologies. Recently, utilisation repair welding to restore worn area wheels been investigated, as it can bring significant savings in wheelset maintenance. Under an Innovate UK AURORA project, a wheel that previously operated London Underground (LUL) was restored using this process. To test its performance a...

This paper presents an active steering control strategy that improves the performance of rail vehicles on track curves. The control scheme is developed to explore the usually symmetrical arrangement of bogie suspensions such that only simple and practical sensors are needed. The vehicle configuration and requirements of wheelset steering on curves are explained, before the detailed control desi...

The study aims to develop a measuring circuit determine the loads acting on side frame of bogie from wheelset when wagon is moving. paper reviews and analyzes experimental methods for vertical lateral forces Theoretical studies stress-strain state freight were carried out using finite element method under action axle opening wheelset. As result theoretical by method, places installation strain ...