Determination of wheel-rail contact points with semianalytic methods. (English) Zbl 1347.70017
Summary: The multibody simulation of railway vehicle dynamics needs a reliable and efficient method to determine the location of the contact points between wheel and rail that represent the application points of the contact forces and influence their directions and intensities. In this work, two semi-analytic procedures for the detection of the wheel-rail contact points (named the DIST and the DIFF methods) are presented. Both the methods consider the wheel and the rail as two surfaces whose analytic expressions are known. The first method is based on the idea that the contact points are located in the point in which the distance between the contact surfaces has local maxima, and is equivalent to solve an algebraic 4D-system. The second method is based on the idea that in the contact points the difference between the surfaces has local minima and is equivalent to solve an algebraic 2D-system. In both cases, the original problem can be reduced analytically to a simple 1D-problem that can be easily solved numerically.
MSC:
| 70E55 | Dynamics of multibody systems |
| 70E18 | Motion of a rigid body in contact with a solid surface |
| 70-08 | Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems |
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