A numerical model is developed to predict the wheel/rail dynamic interaction occurring due to excitation by wheel flats. A relative displacement excitation is introduced between the wheel and rail that differs from the geometric form of the wheel flat due to the finite curvature of the wheel. To allow for the non-linearity of the contact spring and the possibility of loss of contact between the wheel and the rail, a time-domain model is used to calculate the interaction force. This includes simplified dynamic models of the wheel and the track. In order to predict the consequent noise radiation, the wheel/rail interaction force is transformed into the frequency domain and then converted back to an equivalent roughness spectrum. This spectrum is used as the input to a linear, frequency-domain model of wheel/rail interaction to predict the noise. The noise level due to wheel flat excitation is found to increase with the train speed V at a rate of about 20 log 10 V whereas rolling noise due to roughness excitation generally increases at about 30 log 10 V. For all speeds up to at least 200 km/h the noise from typical flats exceeds that due to normal levels of roughness. When the wheel load is doubled the predicted impact noise increases by about 3 dB.


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    Title :

    A hybrid model for the noise generation due to railway wheel flats


    Contributors:
    Wu, T.X. (author) / Thompson, D.J. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2002


    Size :

    25 Seiten, 25 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 13 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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