Thermal capacity of tread-braked railway wheels. Part 1: Modelling
Journal article, 2016

Tread brakes are still a common frictional braking system used on metro and suburban trains. Here the wheels are safety-related components and there is a need to develop design specifications and guidelines to ensure that the wheels perform properly under the service conditions to which they are exposed. In the present paper, a model is proposed and developed that represents typical conditions in metro and suburban operations, in particular during sequential stop braking. The analysis also considers drag braking, mechanical loading, residual stresses and wheel-axle interference fit. Finite element modelling, with an advanced temperature-dependent material model, together with a fatigue analysis is employed to quantify the wheel's performance. An application example demonstrates the method for a typical metro wheel. In a companion paper, further applications are presented that demonstrate important aspects of the thermal capacity of tread-braked railway wheels.

CONTACT

railway wheel

Engineering

AXLES

stop braking

ONE DH

TEMPERATURES

Technology

FATIGUE BEHAVIOR

Transportation Science &

Engineering

metro train

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1994 ASME/IEEE JOINT RAILROAD CONFERENCE

fatigue

BRAKING

1994

Civil

IN

Railway tread braking

finite element analysis

Mechanical

TRAIN

Author

Shahab Teimourimanesh

Dynamics

Tore V Vernersson

Dynamics

Roger Lundén

Dynamics

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

0954-4097 (ISSN) 20413017 (eISSN)

Vol. 230 3 784-797

Areas of Advance

Transport

Subject Categories

Transport Systems and Logistics

DOI

10.1177/0954409714566039

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10/8/2017