Journal
VEHICLE SYSTEM DYNAMICS
Volume 60, Issue 7, Pages 2494-2510Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00423114.2021.1912365
Keywords
Rail; rail-wheel interaction; random dynamics and vibrations; statistics; multibody systems
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Funding
- Fundacao Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento [140/2019]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [PD/BD/128138/2016, SFRH/BSAB/150396/2019, UIDB/50022/2020]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BSAB/150396/2019, PD/BD/128138/2016] Funding Source: FCT
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This study examines railway track irregularities from a multivariate series perspective, modeling the spatial correlations among different types of irregularities. By estimating various models of different complexity levels, it is found that model selection should consider not only statistical information criteria, but also the ability to reproduce relevant physical characteristics. The results show that synthesizing irregularities using the proposed multivariate process leads to better matching with measured data compared to using independent univariate processes.
Railway track irregularities occur naturally from service operations and are characterised by deviations of the track relative to its nominal geometry. Since the dynamic behaviour of a rail vehicle depends on the geometry of the track, studying irregularities is essential for safety, comfort, and maintenance. Conventionally, an irregularity is synthesised from a univariate stochastic process, which is a suitable way to represent excitations occurring in one dimension. However, most three-dimensional analyses of rail vehicles require a multivariate description of the irregularities. Therefore, synthesising multiple variables using univariate processes neglects possible relationships among them. This work addresses track irregularities from a multivariate series perspective to model the spatial autocorrelation of each irregularity and their spatial correlation with other types of irregularities. Several multivariate models with different complexity levels are estimated from the irregularities of a 3.6-km long straight track segment. A comparison among models shows that they should be selected based on not only statistical information criteria, but also their ability to reproduce relevant physical characteristics. Finally, a case study shows that the vehicle response to irregularities that are synthesised using the proposed multivariate process matches the response to measured data better than irregularities synthesised using independent univariate processes.
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