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A Method for Setting Wagon Speed Restrictions Based on Wagon Responses

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Xia, F.
Cole, C.
Wolfs, Peter
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2005
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Xia, F. and Cole, C. and Wolfs, P. 2005. A Method for Setting Wagon Speed Restrictions Based on Wagon Responses, 19th International Association of Vehicle System Dynamics Symposium, Aug 28 2005, pp. 424-432. Politecnico di Milano, Italy: Taylor & Francis.
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The 19th IAVSD Symposium - ?The Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks?
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19th International Association of Vehicle System Dynamics Symposium
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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This article presents a method to set wagon speed restrictions based on wagon body accelerations. For the specific locomotive, wagon conditions and track states, an individual wagon critical speed may be determined from its running stability. Furthermore, stability can be evaluated by a wheelset derailment index, which is determined by the ratio of lateral and vertical wheel-rail contact forces. Providing theinformation on the critical speed online has, without doubt, significant industrial application potentials.The research efforts in this article are focused on the estimation of wheel-rail contact forces usingmeasured wagon body accelerations.