Title :
Fatigue analysis of railway wheels according to UIC standards
Author :
Ha, Manh-Tuan ; Kang, Chul-Goo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Konkuk Univ., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
Wheelsets of a train experience a high cyclic load in normal operation and the fatigue analysis of the wheel is crucially important in view of safety of the train. This paper presents a methodology to verify the fatigue safety of the rolling wheels, which is a part of wheelset design process. Recently, the fatigue analysis of the wheel is conducted mainly based on UIC Code criterion, which is complex to apply to actual wheels. In this paper, a 3D model of the railway wheel is analyzed using ANSYS FEM software via uni-axial criterion and multi-axial Crossland criterion.
Keywords :
fatigue; finite element analysis; railway safety; railways; wheels; FEM software; UIC Code criterion; UIC standards; fatigue analysis; fatigue safety; multiaxial Crossland criterion; railway wheels; rolling wheels; train experience; uni-axial criterion; wheelset design process; Fatigue; Finite element methods; Rail transportation; Rails; Solid modeling; Stress; Wheels; Crossland criterion; Train; fatigue wheel;
Conference_Titel :
Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), 2012 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
JeJu Island
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2247-8
