Train collision-induced derailment may result in serious casualties. This study investigates the railway vehicle derailment behaviour and explores the derailment causes in train-to-train impacts. A train-track coupled dynamic model is developed and validated. The lateral (Yde) and vertical (Zde) relative displacements of the wheel/rail pair are used for the derailment evaluation. The results show that the wheelset jumping derailment and the saw-tooth buckling mode may occur during the high-speed collisions. Derailment is mainly caused by car body yawing rotation and wheelset lateral and vertical displacements. Yawing and pitching motions of car body influence wheelset displacement significantly. Vehicles with the higher velocity generate more severe derailment behaviour. Under circumstance of the same train impact energy, the higher vehicle mass and greater car numbers have the stabilizing influence for reducing the derailment risk. Increasing the force on the main energy-absorbing structure which is set in the front-end crushing zone of a vehicle to dissipate the train impact energy and the damping coefficient of the secondary yaw damper can decrease the derailment risk. The train safety operation areas and derailment boundaries indicate that the reliability of the Yde criterion is higher.


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    Title :

    Dynamic analysis of railway vehicle derailment mechanism in train-to-train collision accidents


    Contributors:
    Hou, Lin (author) / Peng, Yong (author) / Sun, Dong (author)


    Publication date :

    2021-09-01


    Size :

    13 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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