Journal
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART F-JOURNAL OF RAIL AND RAPID TRANSIT
Volume 233, Issue 3, Pages 270-282Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0954409718794018
Keywords
CA mortar disengagement; vehicle-slab track coupled model; dynamic responses; PSO-SVM; recognition
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFB1200401]
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Disengagement of emulsified cement asphalt mortar will increase the dynamic action between the vehicle and the track; as a consequence, the rate of cement asphalt mortar disengagement will increase further. This is a serious threat for the safe operation of high-speed railways and the service life of rail equipment. In this study, a vertical coupled model for the vehicle-China Railway Track System II-type slab track with cement asphalt disengagement was established. The cement asphalt mortar was divided into units in order to simulate the arbitrary length of disengagement. Under different conditions, the effects of the cement asphalt mortar disengagement on the dynamic characteristics of the coupled model were analyzed. The results show that when the length of disengagement exceeds 0.65 m under the condition of horizontal complete disengagement, the dynamic responses of the system increase much sharply than the condition of horizontal partly disengagement. Because of the difficulty in identifying defects in the track substructure, a novel method was proposed to rapidly identify the cement asphalt mortar disengagement based on the dynamic responses of the coupled system and particle swarm optimization-support vector machines. The feature vectors were extracted from the acceleration of the wheelset, which were used as training samples in support vector machines. The classification results show that the recognition algorithm based on the acceleration of the wheelset and support vector machines is effective. The location of the track plate with the cement asphalt mortar disengagement at lengths of 0.65 m, 1.3 m, and 1.95 m can be identified with an acceptable accuracy. The robustness of the proposed algorithm under different vehicle speeds, track spectrums, and signal-noise ratios was verified. Recognition of defects in the track substructure using sensors mounted on in-service vehicles has the potential to provide a valuable tool for ensuring the safe operation of railways and for developing a maintenance plan.
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