Dynamic simulation of railway vehicles: Wheel/rail contact analysis

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 867-899

  Auciello, Jury ^a   Meli, Enrico ^a   Falomi, Stefano ^a   Malvezzi, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multibody simulation; Semi analytic methods; Wheel rail contact points

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; CONTACT FORCES; CONTACT POINTS; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; EFFICIENT METHOD; LOCAL MINIMUMS; MULTIBODY SIMULATION; MULTIBODY SIMULATIONS; NON-ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS; RAILWAY VEHICLE DYNAMICS; RAILWAY VEHICLES; SCALAR EQUATIONS; SEMI-ANALYTIC METHODS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; WHEEL/RAIL CONTACT; WHEEL/RAIL CONTACT POINTS;

LOCOMOTIVES; RAILROADS; RAILS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VEHICLE WHEELS;

END EFFECTORS;

EID: 70449567474     PISSN: 00423114     EISSN: 17445159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00423110802464624     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. F. Song and A. Folleco, High fidelity hardware-in-the-loop simulation development for an autonomous underwater vehicle, OCEANS, 2001.
2. H. Hanselmann, Hardware-in-the-loop simulation testing and its integration into a CACSD Toolset, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System Design, Dearborn, MI, 15-18 September 1996, 1996, pp. 152-156.
3. W. Rulka and E. Pankiewicz, MBS approach to generate equations of motions for HiL-simulations in vehicle dynamics, Multibody Syst. Dyn. 14 (2005), pp. 367-386.
4. W.J. Sung-Soo Kim, Subsystem synthesis method with approximate function approach for a real-time multibody vehicle model, Multibody Syst. Dyn. 17 (2007), pp. 141-156.
5. E. Meli, M. Malvezzi, S. Papini, L. Pugi, M. Rinchi, and A. Rindi, A railway vehicle multibody model for real time applications, Veh. Syst. Dyn. 46(12) (2008), pp. 1083-1105.
6. J. Pombo and J. Ambrosio, Dynamic analysis of a railway vehicle in real operation conditions using a new wheel-rail contact detection model, Int. J. Veh. Syst. Model. Test. 1(1-3) (2005), pp. 79-105.
7. J. Pombo and A.J. Silva, A new wheel-rail contact model for railway dynamics, Veh. Syst. Dyn. 45(2) (2007), pp. 165-189.
8. J. Pombo and J. Ambrosio, Application of a wheel-rail contact model to railway dynamics in small radius curved tracks, Multibody Syst. Dyn. 19 (2008), pp. 91-114.
9. A.A. Shabana, M. Berzeri, and J.R. Sany, Numerical procedure for the simulation of wheel/rail contact dynamics, Trans. ASME 123 (2001), pp. 168-178.
10. A. Bhaskar, K.L. Johnson, G.D.Wood, and J.Woodhouse, Wheel/rail dynamics with closely conformal contact. Part 1: Dynamic modelling and stability analysis, Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. F 211 (1997), pp. 11-25.
11. J.B. Ayasse and H. Chollet, Determination of the wheel rail contact patch in semi-Hertzian conditions, Veh. Syst. Dyn. 43(3) (2005), pp. 161-172.
12. A.A. Shabana, K.E. Zaazaa, J.E. Escalona, and J.R. Sany, Development of elastic force model for wheel/rail contact problems, J. Sound Vib. 269 (2004), pp. 295-325.
13. A.A. Shabana and J.R. Sany, An augmented formulation for mechanical systems with non-generalized coordinates: Application to rigid body contact problems, Nonlinear Dyn. 24 (2001), pp. 183-204.
14. A survey of rail vehicle track simulations and flexible multibody dynamics, Nonlinear Dyn. 26 (2001), pp. 179-210.
15. A.A. Shabana, M. Tobaa, H. Sugiyama, and K.E. Zaazaa, On the computer formulations of the wheel/rail contact problem, Nonlinear Dyn. 40 (2005), pp. 169-193.
16. A.A. Shabana and K.E. Zaazaa, Modeling two-point wheel/rail contacts using constraint and elastic-force approaches, Proc. IMECE'02: 2002 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, New Orleans, November, 2002.
17. S. Falomi, Algoritmi innovativi per l'individuazione dei punti di contatto fraruotae rotaia, Master's thesis, Universitàdegli Studi di Firenze, 2007.
18. K. Johnson, Contact Mechanics, Cambridge University press, Cambridge, UK, 1985.
19. J.J. Kalker, Three-Dimensional Elastic Bodies in Rolling Contact, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Nederlands, 1990.
20. S. Falomi and M. Malvezzi, Determination of wheel-rail contact points with semianalytic methods, Multibody Syst. Dyn. 20(4) (2008), pp. 327-358.
21. M. doCarmo, Differential Geometry of Curves and Surface, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA, 1976.
22. M. Malvezzi, E. Meli, S. Papini, and L. Pugi, Parametric models of railway systems for real-time applications, Multibody Dynamics Milano, Italy, 2007.
23. J. Auciello, M. Malvezzi, and A. Rindi, Multibody models of railway vehicles for real-time systems, XVIII Congresso AIMETA, Brescia, Italy, 2007.
24. J.A. Nelder and R. Mead, A simplex method for function minimization, Computer J. 7 (1965), pp. 308-313.
25. T. Kolda, R. Lewis, and V. Torczo, Optimization by direct search: New perspectives on some classical and modern methods, Soc. Ind. Appl. Math. 45(3) (2003), pp. 385-482.
26. J.J. Kalker, Survey of wheel-rail rolling contact theory, Veh. Syst. Dyn. 8(4) (1979), pp. 317-358.
27. Z.Y. Shen and J.A. Elkins, A comparison of alternative creep force models for rail vehicle dynamic analysis, 8th IAVSD Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Road and Tracks, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1983.
28. R.V. Dukkipati and J.R. Amyot, Computer aided simulation in railway dynamics, Marcel Dekker, 1988.
29. O. Polach, Fast wheel-rail forces calculation computer code, Veh. Syst. Dyn. Suppl. 33 (1999), pp. 728-739.
30. Creep forces in simulations of traction vehicles running on adhesion limit, Wear 258 (2005), pp. 992-1000.
31. S. Iwnicki, The Manchester Benchmarks for Rail Vehicle Simulators, Swets & Zeitlinger B.V., Lisse, The Netherlands, 1999.
32. C. Weidemann, Simpack User Guide: How to Create Wheel-Rail Profiles for Simpack, INTEC, Wessling, Germany, 2005.
33. E.C. Ifeachor and B.W. Jervis, Digital Signal Processing, 2nd ed., Pearson Education, 2002.
34. Simulink7: Using simulink, The MathWorks, 2008.