Study on rail corrugation of a metro tangential track with Cologne-egg type fasteners |
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| Authors: | X L Cui H G Yang Q Zhang H Ouyang M H Zhu |
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| Institution: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Tribology Research Institute, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China;2. School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, The Quadrangle, Liverpool, UK |
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| Abstract: | In Chinese metro lines, rail corrugation on both tangential and tight curved tracks with Cologne-egg type fasteners is very severe. Based on the viewpoint of friction-induced vibration causing rail corrugation, the rail corrugation on a tangential track with Cologne-egg type fasteners is studied in this paper. A vibration model of an elastic multiple-wheelset-track system with Cologne-egg type fasteners is established. Both the complex eigenvalue analysis and the transient dynamic analysis are performed to study the stability and the dynamic performance of the wheelset-track system. The simulation results show that a low rail support stiffness value is responsible for rail corrugation on the tangential track. When the Cologne-egg fasteners characterised by a lower stiffness value are replaced with the DTVI2 fasteners characterised by a higher stiffness value, rail corrugation disappears. However, rail corrugation on tight curved tracks cannot be suppressed using the same replacement. The above conclusions are consistent with the corrugation occurrences in actual metro tracks. |
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| Keywords: | Rail corrugation wear friction-induced vibration tangential track Cologne-egg type fastener |
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