Research tools aplicable in designing of high-speed and high-power rail vehicles

Authors

  • Vojtěch Dybala Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Automotive, Combustion Engines and Railway Engineering, Technická 4, Prague, Czech Republic

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14311/APP.2021.31.0010

Keywords:

Railway vehicle, dynamic, roller rig, rollers, drive, torsion dynamics

Abstract

The importance of the railway transport of both goods and passengers continuously grows as it is in many points of view more ecological and economical solution in comparison with road transport. Just the importance has been supporting efforts to design more powerful and faster trains reaching traction powers more than 1.6 MW per a wheel-set or service top speed much more than 300 km/h till these days. To reach design which has enabled such a kind of performances it was necessary to research dynamic behaviour of railway vehicles. Both via laboratory measurements and simulations. The laboratory experiments have been carried out on a specially designed laboratory equipment called roller rigs. A laboratory equipped by roller rig for testing of the railway vehicle dynamic behaviour has been built at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at CTU in Prague, also within PhD study
programs and SGS grants. Another powerful tool within research activities is a simulation. Kind of a such simulation will be presented by this contribution with the focus on the torsion dynamics of high-power fully-suspended drive of a railway vehicle, which has been developed also by PhD students under financial support of The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and related grants.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2021-07-14

How to Cite

Research tools aplicable in designing of high-speed and high-power rail vehicles. (2021). Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 31, 10-17. https://doi.org/10.14311/APP.2021.31.0010