Railway vehicle developement and damage estimation
Author: Date: 2015/12/18 9:49:53
A railway vehicle set (1), for use for example as a car transporter, comprises minor length vehicles (3) provided between major length vehicles (2) and (4). The minor length vehicles have radiussed ends which are in closely spaced nested relationship with substantially correspondingly radiussed ends of the firstvehicles. The arrangement has the advantage that, when thevehicle set travels around a curve, the angle between the centre lines of two of the adjacent major length railway rolling stock is less than would be the case if the intermediate, minor length vehicles were not present. This enables cars to be positioned across the gaps between adjacent vehicles without fear that the articulation of thevehicles will interfere with the car body-work and result in damage thereto.
Disclosed is a load compensating device in railway vehicles, the device including a pressure sensor detecting an air spring pressure in response to loads of the vehicles, an estimation unit outputting an estimated railway vehicle load by estimating each load of a plurality of railway vehicles, and a detection unit outputting a railway vehicle load by detection of fault in the pressure sensor.
A method for estimating damage to a railway vehicle is provided. The method includes steps of: recording route data on the routes over which the railway vehicles travels; measuring the operational condition external to the vehicle along the routes at the time of travel by the railway vehicle; and estimating possible damage to the railway vehicle by correlating the recorded route data with occurrence of the measured external condition. ![]()