Introduction
A complete railroad vehicle
Track irregularities and Wheel/rail-connection
Creating railway vehicles from scratch
Miscellaneous
Introduction
- How vehicle dynamics can be used
- An overview over the GENSYS software package
- The UNIX environment
- Create a simple sine-wave
- Create and analyse a car-body resting on four coil-springs
Hands on session:
A complete railroad vehicle
- Analysis of a four-axle bogie-vehicle
- Acceptance test according to UIC 518 and CEN/TC 256 WG 10
- Ride comfort
- Wear and energy dissipation
- Rolling contact fatigue on wheels and rails
Hands on session:
- Repeat the analysis of the four-axle bogie-vehicle
Track irregularities and Wheel/rail-connection
- Create track irregularities
- Classify track irregularities
- Create and examine wheel-rail-geometry functions
- Modeling of the wheel rail connection
Hands on session:
Creating railway vehicles from scratch
- Modeling of a 2-axle freight vehicle
- Modeling of a 4-axle bogie vehicle
- Checking and debugging the input data model
Hands on session:
- Repeat the modeling of the 4-axle bogie vehicle
- Do the steps for checking the model
Miscellaneous
- Flexible masses
- Searching in the documentation
- Other couplings and masses not used in the previous examples
- Writing own user defined coupling elements
- Modelling of a three-piece bogie with friction wedges
- Modelling longitudinal waves in long trains