This paper proposes a new rail vehicle concept: a ‘three-axles-one-unit’ vehicle, with a self-steering single axle. Usually, a single-axle vehicle requires a short and wide car body, which is a system design of the next generation of railway vehicles. The authors propose a new ‘three-axle-one-unit’ vehicle steering a single-axle truck for the railways. This proposed vehicle uses three trucks and has the standard body length of a conventional train. It has the merit of decreasing elastic-body vibration by using a lightweight car body and by setting a truck in the middle of the car body. This system design can provide high performance with respect to stability, curving performance, and axle load limitation. Analyses were made with multi-body dynamic simulations and the basic characteristics were cleared. Finally, 1/10-scale model was made and tested. The proposed vehicle's potential for high performance was proved from running experiments, including curving.


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    Title :

    Dynamics of three-axle-one-unit vehicles with self-steering single axle


    Contributors:
    Lin, S. (author) / Suda, Y. (author) / Hirai, A. (author)

    Published in:

    Vehicle System Dynamics ; 46 , sup1 ; 837-847


    Publication date :

    2008-09-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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