SIMULATION OF TRAIN DERAILMENT IN PASSING OVER RAILS WITH RANDOM IRREGULARITIES ON A VISCOELASTIC FOUNDATION

摘要

Derailment of a passenger wagon on a rail with random irregularities is investigated in this paper. The wagon having 48 degrees of freedom is assumed to travel over a rail on a viscoelastic foundation. The wagon model is a 3-D, non-linear model of a passenger train car, considering non-linear elements for the primary and secondary suspension systems having friction and slack between their elements, the center pivot with kinematics constraints, forces between pads, and bolster.rnThe motion of the wagon on rail with random vertical irregularities is simulated for different line grades and travel speeds. Derailment coefficient and a new derailment criterion are used to investigate probability of wheelset derailment moving on different line grades. The study shows that the new criterion can very well predict wheelset derailment and can duplicate the predictions by conventional derailment coefficient (Q/P). Comparison of the wagon derailment on lines with different sleeper rigidity shows that increase in sleeper rigidity decrease derailment probability.