Failure Analysis of Pivot Housing in Wag-09 Locomotive

摘要

Railway system in India plays a vital role in transportation. The demand of prolong service life and reliabilityof the various component are always considered as critical issue. The component of the study has been obtainedfrom the Central Railway, Electric Loco Shed Ajani Nagpur M.S India. In the present study the failure of one ofthe components of traction link (Pivot Housing) is carefully investigated. This paper presents theoretical and finiteelement analysis (FEA) results for the pivot housing assembly which predicts the failure load and determines ultimatefailure strength. A significant result of these studies includes increasing the bending strength of Pivot Housing. Themeasured stresses were in good agreement with theoretical results. To get the additional insight, finite elementanalysis results are presented and compared to both.