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Self-excited yawing vibrations of railway cars

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The site [1] presents a video recording of the motion of empty freight railway cars. The video demonstrates that some railway cars experience angular self-excited vibrations in the horizontal plane (i.e., yawing). In the same reference, the main causes of such a “negative dynamics” of railway cars are listed. All causes are related to some defects in railway car manufacturing.

We show that such self-excited vibrations are possible even in the case of absolutely ideal railway car without any defects at all. It is shown that, for a certain combination of parameters, the rectilinear (unperturbed) motion of a railway car may experience flutter instability. This type of self-excited vibrations of railway cars has not been studied earlier [2, 3].

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  1. Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr-t Vernadskogo 101, str. 1, Moscow, 119526, Russia

    V. Ph. Zhuravlev

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Original Russian Text © V.Ph. Zhuravlev, 2013, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Mekhanika Tverdogo Tela, 2013, No. 1, pp. 3–8.

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Zhuravlev, V.P. Self-excited yawing vibrations of railway cars. Mech. Solids 48, 1–5 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0025654413010019

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