Benefit of a Semi-Actively Controlled Magnetorheological Damper for a Railway Vehicle

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semi-active magnetorheological damper railway vehicle bogie comfort stability wear

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Filip Jeniš
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Tomáš Michálek
University of Pardubice, Faculty of Transport Engineering
Ivan Mazůrek
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

This contribution deals with potential benefits of semi-active dampers for a railway vehicle. With the help of vertical or lateral secondary dampers, it is possible to significantly reduce a vibration level of the vehicle body and thus increase passengers' comfort. By controlling the yaw dampers, it is possible to improve running stability and reduce wear in the wheel/rail contact, whether using slow adaptive control or fully semi-active control. The benefit of adaptive mode has been verified on a real vehicle with a magnetorheological damper developed within the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade project by the company Strojírna
Oslavany, spol. s r.o. in cooperation with the Brno University of Technology. This paper then describes the simulation verification of the benefits of fully semi-active control of a developed yaw damper with a short time response. The simulation results show that the application of a suitable algorithm allows to reach smooth running of the investigated vehicle at higher speed in a straight track and has a potential to reduce the level of wear in wheel/rail contact.

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Jeniš, F., Michálek, T., & Mazůrek, I. (2021). Benefit of a Semi-Actively Controlled Magnetorheological Damper for a Railway Vehicle. Current Problems in Rail Vehicles, 25, 85–92. Retrieved from https://spkv.upce.cz/index.php/spkv/article/view/2715
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Vol. 25 (2021)
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