研磨子抑制高速列车车轮多边形磨耗的机理研究

高速列车车轮多边形磨耗是我国高速列车自2008年开行以来出现的最严重的问题之一,直接影响到高速列车的运行安全. 利用高速轮轨滚动试验机试验研究了研磨子的增黏作用和局部缺陷修复作用,探讨了其作用机制. 建立了由轮对、钢轨和整体道床组成的轮轨系统滑动摩擦自激振动模型,研究了轮轨黏着和滑动工况下的轮轨系统摩擦自激振动发生趋势,指出研磨子抑制高速列车车轮多边形磨耗的主要机理在于以下两个方面:(1)研磨子的增黏作用,使轮轨系统制动和牵引时不容易发生滑动,消除了车轮多边形发生的条件;(2)研磨子中硬质颗粒能够有效地将车轮踏面的微观缺陷及时打磨清除,从而有效抑制车轮多边形、异常磨耗及接触疲劳裂纹的产生.      

Dynamic Stability and Random Vibrations of Rigid and Elastic Wheelsets

A stability analysis and vibration studies are presented for a passenger coach model which is equipped with rigid or elastic wheels. The elastic components between wheel rim and disc act as third suspension reducing the unsprung mass and isolating the passenger coach from the high frequency motion of the wheel rim. The vertical and lateral motion by such a design requires a thorough analysis of the system dynamics. The excitation of the vertical vibrations by stochastic track irregularities results in acceleration amplitudes of the carbody that may generate droning noise. A parameter study of spring and damper coefficients of the system with radialelastic wheels leads to considerably reduced droning noise and lower force level between wheel and rail. Furthermore, the eigenmotion of a rigid and an elastic wheelset rolling on a track, the so-called hunting, is investigated. The variation of the spring and damper coefficients shows limits to guarantee the stability of the system.     

基于有限元的高速列车车轮多边形磨耗成因分析

研究了中国高速列车车轮多边形磨耗的形成原因,考虑轮对的旋转惯量,建立了高速列车轮对-轨道-盘式制动系统有限元模型. 基于轮轨系统摩擦自激振动的理论,采用有限元复特征值分析法研究了高速列车制动时轮对-轨道-盘式制动系统的稳定性. 研究了饱和的轮轨蠕滑力和盘式制动系统摩擦力耦合作用对车轮多边形磨耗的影响,并调查了轮轨-轨道-盘式制动系统的参数敏感性. 数值模拟结果表明:在饱和的轮轨蠕滑力和盘式制动器摩擦力耦合作用下,轮轨系统的摩擦自激振动导致高速列车车轮多边形磨耗的产生,其导致的21~22阶和23~24阶车轮多边形磨耗占主导地位,这与中国高速列车高阶车轮多边形磨耗最为符合. 饱和的轮轨蠕滑力主要影响较低阶车轮多边形磨耗,盘式制动器摩擦力主要影响较高阶车轮多边形磨耗. 制动压力为13 kN时,车轮多边形磨耗形成的几率最小,发展速度最慢. 过高或者过低的垂向悬挂力均不利于抑制车轮多边形磨耗. 垂向悬挂力为75 kN时,车轮多边形磨耗形成的可能性最小,发展速度最慢.      

柔性轮对的离散时间传递矩阵法建模及垂向振动

针对铁道车辆轮对系统的弹性振动及台架高频激振试验仿真问题, 以离散时间传递矩阵法建立了柔性轮对振动模型. 基于Newmark-β隐式法积分格式推导了分布质量弹性轮轴、集总质量车轮及弹簧-阻尼单元的离散时间传递矩阵, 采用Riccati法、Newmark-β法实现轮对系统垂向振动加速度以及速度、位移的求解, 将轮对模型与采用新型显式积分法求解的构架、轨道轮组动力学模型集成, 完成机车车辆单轴滚振试验台的动力学建模, 提出了混合积分模式下动态仿真求解流程. 基于滚振试验台, 开展了轨道轮初始表面粗糙度、打磨多边形及局部凹陷状态下300 ~ 400 km/h高速运行试验, 同步开展了相应的动力学仿真, 通过在时域-频域对测试和计算结果的比较, 检验了理论模型. 结果表明, 在振动加速度的时域-频域特性和幅值分布上, 单轮对柔体模型总体能够较好反映500 Hz频率下系统的中高频振动规律, 有效捕捉车轮不圆、多边形磨耗、局部凹陷等动态激扰, 三种轨面状态下计算的轴箱加速度幅值误差总体低于9%, 模型具有较好的适应性和准确性. 但相关建模方法如何在复杂空间结构中应用需要进一步探索.      

车轮材料特性对轮轨磨损与疲劳性能影响的研究

在MMS-2A滚动摩擦磨损试验机上进行不同材料车轮与U75V热轧钢轨的匹配试验,研究材料特性对轮轨试样磨损与疲劳性能的影响.结果表明:随着车轮碳含量增加,组织中珠光体比例增加,珠光体中渗碳体片层间距减小,硬度增大;随着轮/轨硬度比增大,车轮表层的塑性变形层厚度逐渐减小,对摩副钢轨塑性变形层厚度呈现先增大后减小的趋势;车轮试样磨损形式由小剥离掉块向大剥离掉块转变,钢轨磨损机制由材料表层的轻微剥落向深层剥落磨损转变;提升车轮的硬度,轮轨表面的疲劳裂纹长度减小;且随着车轮硬度的增大,钢轨表面萌生的疲劳裂纹的末端扩展角度有增大的趋势,使钢轨的疲劳裂纹更容易向材料心部扩展.     

两种型面轮轨滚动接触蠕滑率和摩擦功

采用数值分析方法详细分析了2种型面轮对与轨道在滚动接触过程中的接触几何、蠕滑率和摩擦功。在摩擦功分析计算中利用了Kalker三维弹性体非赫兹滚动接触理论,并考虑了轮轨的结构变形的影响。分析计算表明,在轮对运动相同的情况下,磨耗型轮对与轨道之间的蠕滑率和摩擦功与锥型轮对轨道之间的蠕滑率和摩擦功相差甚大。数值分析结果表明,现行铁路中正在推广使用的磨耗型轮对并不能减少轮轨接触表面之间的磨损,磨损型车轮的型面与钢轨尺寸的匹配还有待进一步改进。     

冲角工况下列车车轮损伤机理研究

曲线通过和蛇行运动时将会在轮轨间产生一定的冲角,为探究列车车轮在冲角工况下的损伤机理,利用JD-1轮轨模拟试验机对列车车轮进行滚动接触疲劳试验.结果表明:在冲角工况下车轮试件磨痕的不同区域存在不同的损伤机理,按损伤机理的不同可以将其分为塑性堆积区、疲劳损伤区和磨损区三个区域.在应力发生剧烈变化且应力方向由高应力区指向低应力区的区域将会出现材料的塑性堆积,并且在堆积处产生疲劳裂纹.滚动接触下的疲劳裂纹可以萌生于表面和亚表面,在较强应力作用下,车轮材料的晶粒发生了明显的细化,在横截面上呈现出纤维状组织.     

Interaction of subway LIM vehicle with ballasted track in polygonal wheel wear development

This paper develops a coupled dynamics model for a linear induction motor (LIM) vehicle and a subway track to investigate the influence of polygonal wheels of the vehicle on the dynamic behavior of the system. In the model, the vehicle is modeled as a multi-body system with 35 degrees of freedom. A Timoshenko beam is used to model the rails which are discretely supported by sleepers. The sleepers are modeled as rigid bodies with their vertical, lateral, and rolling motions being considered. In order to simulate the vehicle running along the track, a moving sleeper support model is introduced to simulate the excitation by the discrete sleeper supporters, in which the sleepers are assumed to move backward at a constant speed that is the same as the train speed. The Hertzian contact theory and the Shen- Hedrick-Elkins’ model are utilized to deal with the normal dynamic forces and the tangential forces between wheels and rails, respectively. In order to better characterize the linear metro system (LMS), Euler beam theory based on modal superposition method is used to model LIM and RP. The vertical electric magnetic force and the lateral restoring force between the LIM and RP are also taken into consideration. The former has gap-varying nonlinear characteristics, whilst the latter is considered as a constant restoring force of 1 kN. The numerical analysis considers the effect of the excitation due to polygonal wheels on the dynamic behavior of the system at different wear stages, in which the used data regarding the polygonal wear on the wheel tread are directly measured at the subway site.     

Medium frequency dynamic investigation of the railway wheelset-track system using a discrete-continuous model

Summary In the paper, dynamic interaction between elastic high-speed-train car wheelset and track is studied using a discrete-continuous mechanical model. The model enables to investigate the influence of the parametric excitation from the track as well as static and dynamic unbalances of wheels and brake disks on the dynamic response of the wheelset running at various speeds on the track of various average vertical stiffness. From the results of numerical simulation it follows that particularly severe periodic resonances occur for the track of large stiffness, yielding high vertical dynamic contact forces between the wheels and rails. The maximum dynamic response has been obtained for parameters corresponding to the conditions at which the phenomenon of grumbling noise generation is usually observed in reality. Received 21 January 1997; accepted for publication 29 February 1997     

2D FE–DEM analysis of tractive performance of an elastic wheel for planetary rovers

We have been developing a simulation program for use with soil–wheel interaction problems by coupling Finite Element Method (FEM) and Discrete Element Method (DEM) for which a wheel is modeled by FEM and soil is expressed by DEM. Previous two-dimensional FE–DEM was updated to analyze the tractive performance of a flexible elastic wheel by introducing a new algorithm learned from the PID-controller model. In an elastic wheel model, four structural parts were defined using FEM: the wheel rim, intermediate part, surface layer, and wheel lugs. The wheel rigidity was controlled by varying the Young’s Modulus of the intermediate part. The tractive performance of two elastic wheels with lugs for planetary rovers of the European Space Agency was analyzed. Numerical results were compared with experimentally obtained results collected at DLR Bremen, Germany. The FE–DEM result was confirmed to depict similar behaviors of tractive performance such as gross tractive effort, net traction, running resistance, and wheel sinkage, as in the results of experiments. Moreover, the tractive performance of elastic wheels on Mars was predicted using FE–DEM. Results clarified that no significant difference of net traction exists between the two wheels.     

Effect of Lateral Linear Stiffness on Nonlinear Characteristics of Hunting Motion of a Railway Wheelset

Railway wheelset experiences the problem of hunting above a critical speed, which is a kind of self-excited oscillation. At the critical speed, it is known that the system undergoes a subcritical Hopf bifurcation. Therefore, for clarifying the nonlinear characteristics of hunting it is very important to detect, for example, the nonlinear forces in the wheelset due to the creep forces acting between the wheels and rails, and the nonlinear component of the resorting forces by the suspensions. However, it is impossible to determine each force quantitatively. In the present paper, it is first shown, by using the center manifold theory and the method of normal form, that the nonlinear characteristics of the bifurcation in a wheelset model with two degrees of freedom are governed by a single parameter, hence each nonlinear force need not be detected when examining the nonlinear characteristics. Also, a method of determining the governing parameter from experimentally observed radiuses of the unstable limit cycle is proposed. Next, we experimentally investigate the variation of the parameter due to the presence of linear spring suspensions in the lateral direction and discuss the variation of the nonlinear characteristics of the hunting motion, which depends on the lateral stiffness. As a result, the improvement of the stability of the wheelset against the disturbance by the linear spring suspensions is clarified.     

钢轨横向不均匀支撑刚度对钢轨波磨的影响

建立了钢轨波浪形磨损计算模型,模型中考虑车辆轨道垂向横向耦合动力学行为、轮轨三 维滚动接触力学行为和轮轨材料摩擦磨损的循环相互作用关系. 发展了相应的计算程序,并 用1: 1试验装置验证了理论模型. 详细分析了实际线路上由轨枕离散支撑导致的钢轨横向不均匀刚度和不同行车速度对曲线钢轨接触表面不均匀磨损的影响. 通过数值分析可知： (1)列车通过曲线钢轨时,轨枕离散支撑导致的钢轨横向不均匀刚度易引发曲线钢轨波磨的形 成和发展;(2)这类钢轨波磨具有与轨枕间距几乎相等的波长和28~35mm的短波长,这个短波长不均匀磨损主要是由轮轨高频接触振动引起;(3)同一个转向 架4个车轮作用下形成的钢轨波磨最大深度波谷的分布是不同的;(4) 改变过车速度不能有效地抑制轨枕离散支撑导致的钢轨波磨形成和发展速度.     

Thermal stresses and shakedown in wheel/rail contact

Summary  Sliding friction between railway wheels and rails results in considerable contact temperatures and gives rise to severe thermal stresses at the surfaces of the wheels and rails. An approximate analytical solution is presented for a line contact model. The increased bulk temperature of the wheel after a long period of constant operating conditions is also taken into account. The thermal stresses have to be superimposed on the mechanical contact stresses. They reduce the elastic limit of the wheel and rail, and yielding begins at lower mechanical loads. When residual stresses build up during the initial cycles of plastic deformation, the structure can carry higher loads with a purely elastic response in subsequent load cycles. This phenomenon is referred to as shakedown. Due to the distribution of temperature, the rail surface is generally subjected to higher stresses than the wheel surface. This can cause structural changes in the rail material and hence rail damage. Received 7 May 2002; accepted for publication 3 September 2002     

Effect of a scratch on curved rail on initiation and evolution of plastic deformation induced rail corrugation

A calculation model is put forward to analyze the effect of a scratch on the running surface of a curved rail on initiation and growth of plastic deformation induced rail corrugation when a wheelset is steadily and repeatedly curving. The numerical method considers a combination of Carter’s two-dimensional contact theory, a two-dimensional elastic–plastic finite element model and a vertical dynamics model of railway vehicle coupled with a curved track. A concept of feedback between the corrugation development and the vertical coupling dynamics of the wheelset and track is involved. The cyclic ratchetting effect of the rail material under repeated contact loadings is taken into account. The numerical results indicate that when a vehicle runs on rails with a scratch the contact vibration between the wheel and rail occurs at large amplitude, and rail corrugation due to plastic deformation initiates and develops. The corrugation has a tendency to move along the running direction and its evolution rate decays as wheelset passages increase. The passing frequencies of the plastic deformation induced corrugation depend on the natural frequencies of the track. The residual stresses stabilize after a limited number of wheelset passages. The residual strains increase at a reduced rate with increasing wheelset passages.     

Non-linear dynamic phenomena in the behaviour of a railway wheelset model

A dicone moving on a pair of cylindrical rails can be considered as a simplified model of a railway wheelset. Taking into account the non-linear friction laws of rolling contact, the equations of motion for this non-linear mechanical system result in a set of differential-algebraic equations. Previous simulations performed with the differential-algebraic solver DASSL, [2], and experiments, [7], indicated non-linear phenomena such as limit-cycles, bifurcations as well as chaotic behaviour. In this paper the non-linear phenomena are investigated in more detail with the aid of special in-house software and the path-following algorithm PATH [10]. We apply Poincaré sections and Poincaré maps to describe the structure of periodic, quasiperiodic and chaotic motions. The analyses show that part of the chaotic behaviour of the non-linear system can be fully understood as a non-linear iterative process. The resulting stretching and folding processes are illustrated by series of Poincaré sections.     

Stability of the rectilinear motion of a railway Wheelset

A railway wheelset rolling on rails without slip is studied with consideration of the creep hypothesis. The wheelset is represented by two cones having a common base; the rails are represented by two circular cylinders with parallel axes. The kinematic characteristics of undisturbed rolling for the wheelset are determined when its center of mass moves along a straight line; these characteristics are also determined in the case of disturbed motion when the mass center of the wheelset moves along a sinusoidal trajectory. For these modes of motion, the constraint reactions are found with an accuracy up to the second order of smallness with respect to the values of disturbed variables. When the absolutely rigid point contact is replaced by the elastic contact, the creep hypothesis is used, the method of averaging with respect to the fast variables is applied, and a critical velocity above which the rectilinear rolling becomes unstable is determined on the basis of the averaged equations.     

Systematic design and development of a flexible wheel for low mass lunar rover

Low mass compact rovers provide cost effective means to explore extra-terrestrial terrains. Use of flexible wheels in such applications where the wheel size is restricted, improves traction at reduced slip and sinkage. Design of a flexible wheel for a given mission is a challenging task requiring consideration of stiffness of rim and spokes, stress induced in the wheel, chassis movement during wheel rotation and the operating mode of the wheel. Also, accurate mathematical models are required to save design and development time and reduce the number of prototypes for selection. It is observed that most of the research papers deal with performance testing of flexible wheels and information on analytical formulation is scarce. Therefore, in the present work, a methodology has been formulated to systematically design a flexible wheel for a low mass lunar rover. The prototype performance is tested and compared with analytical estimates and reasons for difference are investigated. Paper contains details of design criteria, mathematical modelling, realisation of wheel prototype, test fixture and analysis test comparison. Authors believe that this work provides a useful aid to the designer to systematically design flexible wheels for low mass lunar rovers.     

基于优化多核极限学习机的车轮多边形磨耗识别

多边形车轮是铁路机车车辆中普遍存在的一种磨损现象, 随着列车运营里程的增加, 车轮磨耗程度显著提升, 严重影响着列车乘坐舒适性和运营安全性, 借助于列车运营监测大数据开展多边形车轮动态检测方法研究具有重要意义. 本研究基于列车轴箱垂向加速度建立了多边形车轮定量识别模型, 首先通过阶次分析识别出轴箱加速度中包含的多边形车轮主要阶次, 同时获取各阶次对应的加速度幅值信息, 在此基础上引入加速度信号熵特征共同构建多边形车轮磨耗幅值识别特征矩阵, 然后建立遗传变异粒子群优化多核极限学习机 (GMPSO-MKELM) 识别模型, 通过特征矩阵与磨耗幅值的映射关系, 进一步实现了车轮多边形磨耗幅值识别. 通过仿真与现场实测数据研究结果表明, 所提出的识别模型能有效地从轴箱加速度中提取多边形车轮主要阶次, 磨耗幅值的识别精度均优于对比模型且具有较高的检测效率, 可实现均方根误差为0.0010 (仿真结果) 与0.0134 (试验结果) 的精确识别, 本文提出的多边形车轮磨耗识别模型可为列车车轮检测与智能维护提供理论基础.      

车轮多边形激励下高速列车制动界面摩擦学行为分析

高速列车车轮多边形磨耗是一种沿车轮周向的不均匀磨耗,是列车服役过程中常见的车轮失效现象,其产生的剧烈轮轨激励严重威胁车辆系统服役可靠性.制动系统作为保障高速列车服役安全的核心部件,其界面摩擦学行为直接受到轮轨激励的影响.为探究车轮多边形激励下的制动界面摩擦学行为,建立了刚柔耦合车辆动力学模型和制动系统热机耦合有限元模型,并分别通过线路试验和台架试验验证了模型的正确性.然后,提出一种考虑车轮多边形激励的制动界面摩擦学行为分析方法,能够真实地反映服役过程中制动界面摩擦学行为.基于此,研究了不同车辆运行速度下车轮多边形激励对制动系统动态接触、温度以及振动特性的影响规律.结果表明：车轮多边形磨耗导致系统接触面积、摩擦热、接触应力和振动等摩擦学行为更为复杂且剧烈.此外,系统接触面积标准差和振动加速度均方根值随速度的增加而增大.因此,车轮多边形磨耗对制动界面摩擦学行为具有不可忽略的影响.该研究成果可为制动系统界面摩擦学行为研究及结构优化设计提供有效方法与工程指导.     

轮对结构柔性对车轮辐板疲劳寿命的影响

针对高速动车非轴对称车轮辐板区域随机疲劳寿命问题,分别将轮对视为刚性体和柔性体建立了车辆-轨道系统动力学模型,仿真得到载荷时间历程和轮轨接触点在踏面上的位置时间历程。在三维有限元模型中使用约束方程模拟轮轴过盈配合,使非线性问题线性化,采用准静态叠加法得到应力时间历程。基于临界距离法中的点法,以疲劳破坏临界平面上的正应力为主循环计数参数,剪应力为辅助计数参数进行多轴循环计数,结合Spagnoli法和Miner理论研究了轮对结构柔性和车轴刚度对车轮辐板随机疲劳寿命的影响。研究结果表明,轮对结构柔性对车轮辐板疲劳寿命有较大影响。随着车轴刚度的降低,轮轨接触横向力的幅值显著增大,轮对模态的特征频率和车轮辐板区域的寿命降低。因此,在轮对轻量化设计时,需综合考虑车轴的结构刚度。