TY - CONF A1 - Otremba, Frank A1 - Romero Navarrete, J. A. T1 - Experimental Assessing of the Energy Transformation in Turns N2 - Turning maneuvers of rail vehicles involve demanding situations for the infrastructure because of the steering forces generated and the resultant lateral load transfers. Such forcing situation involves increased tangential forces that consume kinetic energy from the vehicle. While much attention has been paid in the literature to the damage in such infrastructure segments, the energy that is dissipated in these maneuvers, has not been explicitly addressed. In this paper, a specialized scale-down infrastructure is used to characterize the effect of the initial speed of the vehicle and its mass, on the magnitude of both the rail forces developed and the amount of dissipated energy during turning maneuvers. The outputs of the experiments suggest that most of the original kinetic energy is dissipated at the first portion of the turn. Also, that the magnitude of the wheel forces and the amount of dissipated energy, correlate. That is, a greater rail damage would correspond to greater energy dissipation. T2 - IMECE2022 CY - Columbus, OH, USA DA - 30.10.2022 KW - Energy dissipation KW - Turning maneuvers KW - Rail damage KW - Experimental approaches PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-56333 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Otremba, Frank A1 - Romero Navarrete, J. A. T1 - Experimental Assessing of the Energy Transformation in Turns T2 - Proceedings IMECE 2022 N2 - Turning maneuvers of rail vehicles involve demanding situations for the infrastructure because of the steering forces generated and the resultant lateral load transfers. Such forcing situation involves increased tangential forces that consume kinetic energy from the vehicle. While much attention has been paid in the literature to the damage in such infrastructure segments, the energy that is dissipated in these maneuvers, has not been explicitly addressed. In this paper, a specialized scale-down infrastructure is used to characterize the effect of the initial speed of the vehicle and its mass, on the magnitude of both the rail forces developed and the amount of dissipated energy during turning maneuvers. The outputs of the experiments suggest that most of the original kinetic energy is dissipated at the first portion of the turn. Also, that the magnitude of the wheel forces and the amount of dissipated energy, correlate. That is, a greater rail damage would correspond to greater energy dissipation. T2 - IMECE2022 CY - Columbus, OH, USA DA - 30.10.2022 KW - Turning maneuvers KW - Energy dissipation KW - Rail damage KW - Experimental approaches PY - 2022 SP - 1 EP - 6 AN - OPUS4-56334 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Otremba, Frank A1 - Romero-Navarrete, José A. A1 - Jáuregui Correa, J.C.A. T1 - Forces on rails in turns: A review T2 - CONiiN XVI International Engineering Congress N2 - Regardless of the mode of transportation, directional changes generate greater forces on the infrastructure as a result of the lateral load transfer and of the respective steering forces in the vehicles. In the case of Railway transportation, a concentrated damage occurs in the rail at the initiation of the turning maneuver, whose magnitude depends on the bogie´s yaw stiffness and on the level of friction at its centre plate. To mitigate such rail-damaging effects, some new designs have been proposed and used for the bogies´ wheelset. However, no new designs for the centre plate have been used. In this paper, a review of the causality for the forces arising during Railway Vehicle's turn negotiations, is presented, including the description of a modeling framework to analyze the influential Parameters for determining the magnitude of such forces. T2 - CONIIN 2020 CY - Online meeting DA - 28.09.2020 KW - Turning maneuvers KW - Rail damage KW - Yaw stiffness KW - Yaw resistance KW - Self-aligning bogies KW - Lateral load transfer KW - Steering forces PY - 2020 SP - 1 EP - 6 AN - OPUS4-51390 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Otremba, Frank A1 - Romero-Navarrete, José A. A1 - Lozano Guzmán, A. A. T1 - Modelling of a Partially Loaded Road Tanker during a Braking-in-a-Turn Maneuver JF - Actuators N2 - This paper describes a theoretical model to simulate the effects of a sloshing cargo on the safety performance of a vehicle that performs a braking-in-a-turn maneuver when travels at a partial fill level. The fundamental assumption of the model consists of the superposition of the effects of two simplified mechanical-analogy models that represent a liquid cargo on a vehicle, including one for the roll motion and another one for the pitch motion. The distinctive characteristics of the mechanical models, however, is that they are based upon a validated formulation to establish the properties of the pendulum (length). The results suggest a small effect of the sloshing cargo on the braking efficiency of the cargo, while the load transfer is moderately affected. However, such results should be put into a perspective, according to which such small variations can represent the avoidance of a rear-end crash or a rollover. In this respect, a specialized ABS system could be considered to improve the performance of such kind of vehicles when performing such maneuvers. Validation of the proposed methodology should be performed as a continuation of this research effort. KW - ABS KW - Braking-in-a-turn maneuver KW - Cargo sloshing KW - Road tankers KW - Load transfer KW - Simulation KW - Turning maneuvers PY - 2018 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-456908 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/act7030045 VL - 7 IS - 45 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - MDPI CY - Basel AN - OPUS4-45690 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -