Effect of maintenance practices upon performance of freight car railroad trucks-progress report

Author

Hawthorne, V. Terrey ; Sellberg, R.P. ; Wronkiewicz, R.D.

Author_Institution

American Steel Foundries, Chicago, IL, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

17-19 Apr 1990

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

12

Abstract

A joint effort between American Steel Foundries and Trailer Train Company to quantify the effect of truck wear upon truck performance is described. Three measurable parameters were selected to evaluate the effect of wear upon the suspension system; warp stiffness, damping force, and spring force-displacement characteristics. A NUCARS analysis of the Trailer Train bilevel autorack car to determine the effect of wear upon the ride and hunting performance was carried out. This phase of the program established the feasibility of using shoe height as an indicator of the performance of the vehicle relative to the service life

Keywords

computerised instrumentation; maintenance engineering; railways; wear; American Steel Foundries; NUCARS analysis; Trailer Train Company; Trailer Train bilevel autorack car; damping force; freight car railroad trucks; hunting performance; service life; shoe height; spring force-displacement characteristics; suspension system; truck wear; warp stiffness; Damping; Footwear; Force measurement; Foundries; Friction; Performance analysis; Springs; Steel; Testing; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Railroad Conference, 1990., Technical Papers Presented at the 1990 ASME/IEEE Joint

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RRCON.1990.171654

Filename

171654