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Passive suspensions for ride quality improvement of two-axle railway vehicles
journal contribution
posted on 2017-09-22, 15:08 authored by Jason Z. Jiang, Alejandra Z. Matamoros-Sanchez, Argyrios C. Zolotas, Roger Goodall, Malcolm C. SmithThe aim of this paper is to investigate the possibility of improving the ride quality of a two-axle railway vehicle with a single-stage suspension by means of passive suspensions employing an inerter device. The inerter is a mechanical one-port element that is analogous to a capacitor in electrical circuits. The goal is to improve the ride quality in both the vertical and lateral motions in response to track irregularities. Performance benefits for several simple passive suspension layouts are demonstrated and compared with the conventional scheme. The elastic effects of the damper and inerter device are then taken into consideration for practical purposes. The optimum parameter values of the damper, inerter and the parameters representing the elastic effects provide guidance for mechanical design purposes.
Funding
This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant number EP/G066477/1). This was also supported by Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela and via a Departmental Scholarship from the School of Electronics, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Loughborough University, UK.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid TransitVolume
229Issue
3Pages
315 - 329Citation
JIANG, J.Z. ... et al, 2013. Passive suspensions for ride quality improvement of two-axle railway vehicles. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 229 (3), pp. 315-329.Publisher
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2013Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0954409713511592.ISSN
0954-4097eISSN
2041-3017Publisher version
Language
- en