4.5 Article

Study on the derailment behaviour of a railway wheelset with solid axles in a railway turnout

Journal

VEHICLE SYSTEM DYNAMICS
Volume 58, Issue 1, Pages 123-143

Publisher

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00423114.2019.1566558

Keywords

Railway turnout; derailment behaviour; dynamic wheel-turnout rail interaction; influence analysis

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51425804, 51608459, U1734207, 51378439]
  2. Open Foundation of MOE Key Laboratory of Road and Railway Safety Control [STKF201717]
  3. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2682018CX01]

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Dynamic wheel-rail interaction in railway turnouts is more complicated than on ordinary track. In order to evaluate the derailment behaviour of railway wheelsets in railway turnouts, this paper presents a study of dynamic wheel-rail interaction during a wheel flange climbs on the turnout rails, by applying the elasticity positioning wheelset model. A numerical model is established based on a coupled finite element method and multi-body dynamics, and applied to study the derailment behaviour of a railway wheelset in both the facing and trailing directions in a railway turnout, as well as dynamic wheel-turnout rail interaction during the wheel flange climbing on the turnout rails. The influence of the wheel-rail attack angle and the friction coefficient on the dynamic derailment behaviour is investigated through the proposed model. The results show that the derailment safety for a wheelset passing the railway turnout in facing direction is significantly lower than that for the trailing direction and the ordinary track. The possibility of derailment for the wheelset passing the railway turnout in facing and trailing directions at positive wheel-rail attack angles will increase with an increase in the attack angles, and the possibility of derailment can be reduced by decreasing the friction coefficient.

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