Railway overhead contact lines are very low-damped structures with a high modal density in the low-frequency region. This has a significant impact on the interaction with the pantograph, especially in the high-speed case and in multiple pantographs operations. This paper studies the optimal spatial damping distribution in overhead contact lines obtained by introducing localised damping connections, resulting in a non-proportional damping distribution. To this end, the simulation software Cateway is presented and adopted in conjunction with evolutionary multi-objective optimisers to seek for the most efficient spatial damping distribution. The study is conducted on a high-speed reference model considering two different train speeds. The final goal of this optimisation is to obtain useful hints about the most and least sensitive regions to damping modifications. A dedicated study on the locus of the poles of the system is also proposed to corroborate the findings of the analysis. Results show that significant improvements on the current collection quality can be achieved by carefully designing the spatial damping distribution, especially for the rear (trailing) pantograph. On the other hand, wrong design choices can lead to a degradation of the contact forces.


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    Titel :

    A study on the optimal spatial damping distribution in railway pantograph-catenary interaction


    Beteiligte:

    Erschienen in:

    Vehicle System Dynamics ; 62 , 4 ; 888-905


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2024-04-02


    Format / Umfang :

    18 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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