In order to study the effects of wheel-rail impacts on the fatigue damage of the fastening clips at the rail joints of a high-speed railway, field tests were carried out on the wheel-rail impacts at the rail joints of a high-speed railway in China. On the basis of the track irregularities at the rail joints obtained from field measurements, a nonlinear vehicle-track coupling dynamics three-dimensional (3D) model with consideration of Timoshenko beam elements and a refined finite element model of WJ-8 fastening system were constructed. And combined with the theory of cumulative damage and the method of fatigue analysis, the effects of wheel-rail impact at the rail joints on the fatigue life of fastening clips were analyzed. The results showed that the impacts of the wheel-rail in the joint area caused high-frequency fluctuations in the stress-time curves of the clips, which significantly increased the amplitude of stress cycle and increased a lot of stress cycles, of which the amplitudes were reached at a large level; the clips in the area where a rail joint was located suffered the most serious fatigue damage and had the shortest fatigue life; in the actual operation line, besides the clips in the rail joint area, it is also necessary to be concerned about the fatigue performance of fastening clips near the rail joint area.


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    Title :

    Effects of Wheel-Rail Impact on the Fatigue Performance of Fastening Clips in Rail Joint Area of High-Speed Railway


    Additional title:

    KSCE J Civ Eng


    Contributors:
    Xiao, Junheng (author) / Yan, Ziquan (author) / Shi, Jin (author) / Ma, Dengke (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2022-01-01


    Size :

    11 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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