The critical or hunting speed of solid axle rail vehicles is known to be a strong function of primary suspension stiffness, wheel/rail profile geometry (conicity and gravitational stiffness), wheel/rail friction forces (creep coefficients), bogie/carbody inertia properties, and secondary suspension design. This paper deals with the problem of maximizing the critical speed through design of the primary and secondary suspension but with control only over the range of wheel/rail geometry and friction characteristics. For example, the conicity may varie from .05 to .3 and the linear creep coefficients from 25% to 100% of the predicted Kalker values.

    It is shown that the maximum critical speed is greatly limited by the wheel/rail geometry and friction variations. It is also shown that, when lateral curving and ride quality are considered, the best design approach is to select an intermediate primary longitudinal stiffness, to limit the lowest value of conicity (e.g. to .1 or .2) by wheel profile redesign, increasing the secondary yaw damping value (yaw relaxation) and optimizing the primary and secondary lateral stiffness.


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    Title :

    High Speed Stability for Rail Vehicles Considering Varying Conicity and Creep Coefficients



    Published in:

    Vehicle System Dynamics ; 13 , 6 ; 299-313


    Publication date :

    1984-01-01


    Size :

    15 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown



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