apart from regular wheel wear such as decreasing wheel diameters and reduced flange thicknesses and heights, wheel flats (wf) and oval wheels (or oor, out-of-roundness) are the most common wheelset problems for railway vehicles. within the fp7 research project “saferail”, apt has developed an innovative wheelset monitoring system so-called “wheel flat and out of roundness monitoring (worm) syst...

Aerodynamic noise becomes significant for high-speed trains and its prediction in an industrial context is hard to achieve. The aerodynamic and aeroacoustic behaviour of the flow past a highspeed train wheelset, one of the main components of a bogie, are investigated at a scale 1:10 using a two-stage hybrid method of computational fluid dynamics and acoustic analogy. The near-field unsteady flo...

This paper presents a study of state estimation for active steering of profiled wheels. Fundamental characteristics of a solid-axle wheelset are explained and the potential benefits of active steering are discussed. The paper studies the non-linearity of the wheelset caused by profiled wheel-rail contact surfaces and develops a recursive non-linear Kalman filter to provide reliable and accurate...

This paper deals with the interaction between a moving wheelset and a slab track due to the shortpitch corrugated rail. The wheelset is modeled using a free-free Timoshenko beam with attached rigid bodies as the axle boxes, wheels and brake discs. The slab track model consists of elastically supported double EulerBernoulli beams. In fact, both wheelset and slab track are symmetric structures an...

The wheelset bearing play an important role in train running safety. In this paper, we introduce the nonlinear dynamical method to study the wheelset bearing vibration signal. Based on the comparative studies of the phase graph and the correlation dimension of the vibration signals under normal condition, outer peeling fault condition and rolling element electric erosion fault condition, the fo...

Maintenance of Railway rolling stock is usually scheduled based. However, the mechanical parts, especially wheelset may wear down prematurely due to several factors such as excessive braking and traction forces environmental conditions. This makes maintenance less effective sometimes it results in derailments. paper presents a deep learning-based technique detect wheel conditions so that can be...

Apart from regular wheel wear such as decreasing wheel diameters and reduced flange thicknesses and heights, wheel flats (WF) and oval wheels (or OOR, Out-Of-Roundness) are the most common wheelset problems for railway vehicles. Within the FP7 Research Project “Saferail”, APT has developed an innovative wheelset monitoring system so-called “Wheel flat and Out of Roundness Monitoring (WORM) syst...

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