Proposal of a Steering Mechanism for Tram Bogie with Three Axle Boxes

Passing of vehicles along curved track is a serious technical problem, which needs special attention. It is especially actual in the environment of urban lines, where it is necessary to pass a track of small radius. There is a significant strain of track as well as tram's bogies. It results in excessive wear in rail-wheel contact. Considerable is also the noise caused by operation on such track. Behavior of the vehicle when riding along track curve is influenced by the wheelset guidance design. If the wheelset guidance is able to set the wheelsets in track curve to a radial position, mitigation of the negative phenomenon can be expected. This paper deals with a design of a mechanism for setting wheelsets in a track curve to a radial position for tram cars. Dynamical analysis of a simplified tram car model was performed. Courses of monitored values of bogie with and without designed mechanism are compared.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.06.050
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705817325961
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2017 Vladimír Hauser et al. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
• Authors:
  • Hauser, Vladimír
  • Nozhenko, Olena
  • Kravchenko, Kateryna
  • Loulová, Mária
  • Gerlici, Juraj
  • Lack, Tomáš
• Conference:
  • 12th International Scientific Conference on Young Scientists on Sustainable, Modern and Safe Transport (TRANSCOM 2017)
  • Location: High Tatras , Slovakia
  • Date: 2017-5-31 to 2017-6-2
• Publication Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 289-294
• Serial:
  • Procedia Engineering
  • Volume: 192
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1877-7058
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18777058
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Car trucks (Railroads); Creep; Rolling contact; Steering systems; Wheelsets (Railroads)
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01646592
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 26 2017 3:16PM