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Wheel wear comparison between motor car and trailer of intercity train

城际列车动车与拖车的车轮磨耗对比

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To analyze wheel wear discrepancy between motor car and trailer of an intercity train, a novel wheel wear rates calculation model was proposed, which was composed of the intercity train dynamics model, wheel-rail three-dimensional rolling contact FEM model and the wear model. The simulated results were contrasted with measured results in field test. The simulated results showed the motor car wheels had larger rotation rate and longitudinal creepage than the trailer wheels. Meanwhile, the motor car wheels encountered larger vertical forces and longitudinal forces from bogie because of the heavier car body and the impact of traction torque. The traction torque acting on motor car wheel could increase the slip rates in the rear part of wheel contact patch and weaken the spinning phenomenon of relative slip. Larger contact pressure and slip rates caused the higher wear rates of motor car wheel than those of trailer wheel. The overall trends of wheel wear depth in simulated and tested results were similar. And they both showed the motor car wheel encountered the more serious wear than the trailer wheel. These models can be used to study the effect of the traction characteristics curves on the wear of wheel.

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为分析城际列车动车与拖车车轮磨耗差异, 提出了一种新的车轮磨耗速率计算模型, 该模型由城际列车动力学模型、轮轨三维滚动接触有限元模型和磨耗模型组成。对比了仿真结果与现场实测结果。仿真结果表明, 动车车轮比拖车车轮具有更大的转速和纵向蠕滑率。同时, 由于车体较重和牵引转矩的影响, 动车车轮受到转向架更大的垂向力和纵向力。作用在动车车轮上的牵引转矩可以提高车轮接触斑后部的蠕滑率, 并减弱自旋蠕滑现象。较大的接触压力和滑移率使动车车轮的磨耗率高于拖车车轮。仿真结果和试验结果表明, 车轮磨耗深度的总体趋势是相似的, 动车车轮比拖车车轮磨耗更为严重。本文提出的模型可用于研究牵引特性曲线对车轮磨耗的影响。

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    Jie Kou  (寇杰), Ji-min Zhang  (张济民), He-chao Zhou  (周和超) & Cheng-ping Wang  (王承萍)

  2. Railway Science Technology Research and Development Center, China Academy of Railway Science Cooperation Limited, Beijing, 100081, China

    Li-xia Sun  (孙丽霞)

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Project(51805374) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China; Project(208YFB1201603-08) supported by the Key R&D Program of Ministry of Science and Technology, China

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The overarching research goals were developed by ZHANG Ji-min. ZHANG Ji-min provided the research route. KOU Jie conducted the investigation and wrote the draft of manuscript. ZHOU He-chao reviewed and edited the draft of the manuscript. WANG Cheng-ping conducted the literature review. SUN Li-xia edited the draft of manuscript.

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Kou, J., Zhang, Jm., Zhou, Hc. et al. Wheel wear comparison between motor car and trailer of intercity train. J. Cent. South Univ. 28, 1737–1746 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-021-4662-5

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