Owing to the blunt car body and high design speed of express freight trains, the running safety is significantly affected by crosswinds when the train runs over a bridge; moreover, severe accidents, such as derailment or overturning may occur. Therefore, adequate measures should be adopted to avoid the occurrence of such accidents. In this study, a finite element model of the train, ballastless track, and parameterized 5-span simply supported girder bridge along with modal superposition method are adopted to establish the train-track-bridge coupling dynamic system. Numerical simulation of stochastic wind speed, wind tunnel tests, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of vehicle-bridge scale model were conducted to calculate the wind load acting on the train and bridge. The dynamic responses of the bridge and train were evaluated to present the diagrams of wind and train speed limits for safe operation. The results indicated that the running safety of the vehicle declined with the wind and train speeds, and the wheel unloading rate was the most sensitive to wind speed. For safe operation, the train speed must be restricted if the mean wind speed is greater than 22.7 m/s, and an extreme scenario of derailment may occur for a mean wind speed of 34.0 m/s. In addition, the wind speed limit should be appropriately adjusted and improved according to the pier height of the bridge and terrain category. This research provides a theoretical basis and data support for the assessment of safety of express freight trains in actual operation.


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    Title :

    Safety of an express freight train running over a bridge in crosswind


    Contributors:
    Wen, Jingcheng (author) / Li, Qi (author) / Lu, Zhenggang (author)


    Publication date :

    2024-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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