Fault Characteristics Analysis of High-Speed Train Transmission Systems

Abstract

The high-speed train speed has a higher requirement for stability and operating safety with its operating speed increasing. The main focus of this paper is on the fault characteristics analysis of a high-speed train transmission system. The governing equation and boundary conditions of the transmission system are derived using the finite element method, in which a Timoshenko beam element is introduced to represent the wheelset shaft, and a rigid mass element is utilized to represent the gears, bearings, and wheels. To investigate the vibration response mechanism of a high-speed train transmission system, the critical speed of the system and its modal response are given. According to the types of high-speed train component fault features, the local fault features of gear, bearing, and wheelset are given. Healthy and faulty systems with localized faults in gear, bearing, and wheelset are studied. The characteristics of amplitude and frequency are verified numerically and the transmission characteristics of signal and relation are explained when there is local fault defect in the system. The results show that under different fault types, the time domain response of the system has obvious periodic impulse response faults, and the fault frequency band characteristic distribution is different in the frequency domain response. The simulation results are consistent with the experimental results.

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