Aerodynamic noise becomes significant for high-speed trains but its prediction in an industrial context is difficult. The flow and aerodynamic noise behaviour of a simplified high-speed train bogie at scale 1:10 are studied here through numerical simulations. The bogie is situated in the bogie cavity and cases without and with a fairing are considered, allowing the shielding effect of the bogie...

the vibrations produced by trains include two parts which are deterministic and random vibrations. due to variation of dynamic loads and patterns of load-time, the random vibration of moving train is one of the most important issues in the field of railway engineering. one of the important sources in producing the train vibrations is rail roughness and irregularities. in this paper, responses o...

The vibrations produced by trains include two parts which are deterministic and random vibrations. Due to variation of dynamic loads and patterns of load-time, the random vibration of moving train is one of the most important issues in the field of railway engineering. One of the important sources in producing the train vibrations is rail roughness and irregularities. In this paper, responses o...

A bogie system is the key equipment of railway vehicles. Rigorous practical evaluation of bogies is still a challenge. Presently, there is overreliance on part-specific experiments in practice. In the present work, a risk evaluation index system of a bogie system has been established based on the inspection data and experts' evaluation. Then, considering quantitative and qualitative aspects, th...

In this paper, analysis for reducing lateral forces is implemented by using a railway vehicle model on a sharp curved track. Also, in order to minimize some problems when a railway vehicle runs on a sharp curved track, an active-steering bogie system is investigated. An active steering bogie system of a railway vehicle is designed to alleviate contact forces and to decrease wear of wheel/rail i...

Highway and roadside safety features are crash tested for compliance with certain safety criteria. US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) uses a surrogate reusable test vehicle, Bogie, to conduct crash tests of roadside safety features. Bogie is intended to replace an impacting vehicle in order to reduce the cost of the test. Bogie can be configured with different crushable impact noses repre...

A vehicle body, two bogie frames and two wheelsets for each bogie frame are used to describe the railway vehicle model. The system dynamic is modeled using a 38-DOF system including the longitudinal, lateral, vertical, roll, pitch and yaw displacements. A heuristic nonlinear creep model and the elastic rail are used to simulate the wheel-rail contact. Stable movement and the corresponding limit...

The life time predictions made with the modified HdM-method agreed rather well with experimental results for the first type of bogie beams, while the method underestimated the fatigue life for the bogie beams of the second type with a factor of up to 50. This is probably due to differences between the two types of load sequences used during the two tests in variables, such as irregularity facto...

Nacrtak Many logging operators in Finland use bogie tracks and wheel chains all the year round and under all terrain conditions. The hypothesis tested here is that bogie tracks and wheel chains increase the resistance forces, and thus fuel consumption, when operating in summer conditions and on a hard-earth forest floor. Fuel consumption was measured under such conditions using the CAN bus and ...

In this paper, a problem for safety of bogie frame of subway vehicle under overload situation has been discussed. Firstly, the structure of bogie frame and service condition are introduced to explain the reason caused fatigue failure. Then, the testing points are selected in terms of the structure of bogie frame, the characteristics of processing technique, load transfer path and the operation ...