Journal article
Wheel/rail contact dynamics in turnout negotiations with combined nodal and non-conformal contact approach
Multibody system dynamics, Vol.27(1), pp.55-74
01/2012
DOI: 10.1007/s11044-011-9252-0
Abstract
In railroad turnouts, geometries of tongue and crossing rails are very complex and their shapes are changing along the track. Therefore, wheels are subjected to not only tread and flange contacts, but also the back-of-flange and top-of-flange contacts in the case of spring switches of tram vehicles. For this reason, one needs to deal with significant jumps in contact points for solving wheel/rail contact problems in turnout, and an accurate prediction of jumps in contact points is one of the most important issues that need to be carefully handled in the dynamic simulation of vehicle/turnout interactions. In this investigation, a numerical procedure that can be used for solving such a complex wheel/rail contact problem in turnout is proposed. In particular, a combined nodal and non-conformal contact approach is developed such that significant jumps in contact points are detected using the nodal search, while the exact location of contact point is then determined with continuous surface parameterizations using non-conformal contact equations. With this combined nodal and non-conformal contact approach for the contact geometry analysis of vehicle/turnout interactions, multiple look-up contact tables can be generated in an efficient way without losing accuracy. Since detailed contact search is performed off-line to obtain look-up contact tables, significant changes in contact points in turnout can be efficiently predicted on-line with tabular data to be interpolated in a standard way. Several numerical examples are presented in order to demonstrate the use of the numerical procedure developed in this investigation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Wheel/rail contact dynamics in turnout negotiations with combined nodal and non-conformal contact approach
- Creators
- Hiroyuki Sugiyama - Department of Mechanical Engineering Tokyo University of Science 1-14-6 Kudankita, Chiyoda-Ku Tokyo 102-0073 JapanTakuto Sekiguchi - Department of Mechanical Engineering Tokyo University of Science 1-14-6 Kudankita, Chiyoda-Ku Tokyo 102-0073 JapanRyosuke Matsumura - Department of Mechanical Engineering Tokyo University of Science 1-14-6 Kudankita, Chiyoda-Ku Tokyo 102-0073 JapanShunpei Yamashita - Department of Mechanical Engineering Tokyo University of Science 1-14-6 Kudankita, Chiyoda-Ku Tokyo 102-0073 JapanYoshihiro Suda - Institute of Industrial Science University of Tokyo Tokyo 153-8505 Japan
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Multibody system dynamics, Vol.27(1), pp.55-74
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands; Dordrecht
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11044-011-9252-0
- ISSN
- 1384-5640
- eISSN
- 1573-272X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2012
- Academic Unit
- Mechanical Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984064561402771
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