Abstract. The article deals with detection of reduced stress in a braked railway wheel, based on thermal transient analysis on virtual models, which influence the characteristics of the railway wheels. Structural analysis was performed by means of the ANSYS Multiphysics program system package. Thermal transient analysis deals with detection of temperature fields which are a result of braking by brake block. The applied heat flux represents the heat generated by friction of brake block. It is applied to a quarter model of the wheel to speed up the calculation. This analysis simulates two braking processes with subsequent cooling. Distribution of the equivalent stress was detected in the railway wheel cross section, at selected points. The input parameters were taken from the thermal transient analysis. These equivalent stresses result from thermal load.
Ride of vehicles along curved track is a serious technical problem, which for the long term requires attention of vehicle engineers as well as track designers. It is especially interesting to observe behavior of tram cars passing a curved track, because they should be able to pass arcs up to 17 meter radius. Ride of a vehicle along such strongly curved track is nowadays accompanied by significant wear in rail-wheel contact, increased bogie and track stress and by generation of noise. One of the key causes of this unfavorable phenomenon is an increase of slip velocities in rail-wheel contact. This paper is based on simulation analysis, which compares different ways of minimizing slip velocities and thus mitigating the impacts of passing vehicles on the track as well as on the car itself. Bogies with and without wheelset steer possibility were analyzed. Both bogies were also analyzed with wheel profiles of different delta R function course.
The article deals with the design of the frame, which will serve to build a new prototype three-wheel vehicle with ecological drive. The proposed frame will be made of aluminum to reduce the weight of a three-wheel vehicle. The new design will allow for optimal distribution of individual parts of an electric vehicle. The 3D model of the frame is created in the CATIA program. The static load calculation will be realized in the ANSYS program.
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