Overhead conductor rail (OCR) is an important power supply device in tunnel railway lines. The penalty method is widely adopted to model the dynamic interaction behaviour of the pantograph-OCR system (POCRs), while it is difficult to determine a proper contact stiffness value. This paper proposes a three-dimensional contact formulation for the POCRs based on the Lagrange multiplier method. Accurate contact forces can be obtained easily by this contact formulation without the trouble of determining the contact stiffness. Contact force is defined in the global coordinate system as a three-dimensional vector. Coulomb law of friction is adopted in this paper to describe the tangential contact force, and the train speed is included in the contact formulation. The central finite difference approximation method is utilised, and an iteration procedure is elaborated to calculate the accurate contact force vector. The proposed contact formulation is verified by comparing simulation results with in-line measured data. The maximum statistical relative error of the contact force is only 2.63%. The advantages of the proposed contact formulation are also demonstrated by comparing it with the penalty method.


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    Title :

    Three-dimensional contact formulation for assessment of dynamic interaction of pantograph and overhead conductor rail system


    Contributors:
    Chen, Long (author) / Duan, Fuchuan (author) / Song, Yang (author) / Hu, Zeyao (author) / Liu, Zhigang (author)

    Published in:

    Vehicle System Dynamics ; 61 , 9 ; 2432-2455


    Publication date :

    2023-09-02


    Size :

    24 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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