Improved lateral-dynamics-intended railway vehicle model involving nonlinear wheel/rail interaction and car body flexibility  

作　　者：Huailong Shi Ren Luo Jinying Guo 

机构地区：[1]State Key Laboratory of Traction Power,Southwest Jiaotong University,Chengdu,610031,China [2]School of Automobile and Transportation,Chengdu Technological University,Chengdu,611730,China

出　　处：《Acta Mechanica Sinica》2021年第6期997-1012,I0003,共17页力学学报（英文版）

基　　金：The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants 51805451,U1934202,and U2034210);the Sichuan Science and Technology Plan Project(Grant 2020YJ0074);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant 2682019CX43);the TPL Independent R&D Project(Grants 2018TPL_T08 and 2019TPL_T15).

摘　　要：To study the vehicle hunting behavior and its coupling with car body vibrations,a simplified lateral-dynamics-intended railway vehicle model is developed.A two-truck vehicle is modeled as a 17 degrees-of-freedom rigid system,into which the car body flexural vibrations of torsion and bending modes are further integrated.The wheel/rail interaction employs a real-time calculation for the Hertzian normal contact,in which the nonlinear curvatures of wheel and rail profiles are presented as functions of wheelset lateral movement and/or yaw rotation.Then the tangential/creep forces are analytically expressed as the Hertzian contact patch geometry,and lead to a continuous and fast calculation compared to a look-up table interpolation.It is shown that the hunting frequencies of the vehicle model and a truck model differ significantly,which verifies the necessity of the whole vehicle model.In the case of low wheel/rail conicity,the hunting frequency increases linearly with vehicle speed,whereas it rises slowly at high speed for a large conicity.Comparison of hunting frequency and damping ratio between various conicities shows that first hunting(car body hunting)may occur when the vehicle is operated at a low speed in a small conicity case,while a second hunting(truck hunting)appears when the vehicle is operated at a high speed in a large conicity case.Stability analysis of linear and nonlinear vehicle models was carried out through coast down method and constant speed simulations.Results tell that the linear one overestimates the lateral vibrating.Whereas the structural vibrations of car body can be ignored in the stability analysis.Compared to existing simplified models for hunting stability study,the proposed simplified vehicle model released limitations in the nonlinear geometries of wheel/rail profiles,and it is suitable for a frequency-domain analysis by deriving the analytical expressions of the normal and tangential wheel/rail contact forces.

关 键 词：Railroad vehicle Wheel/rail contact Analytical forms Hunting stability Car body flexibility 

分 类 号：U46[机械工程—车辆工程]