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Quasistatic Curving Behavior

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Abstract

Interest in curving behavior of rail vehicles began earlier than interest in stability. In Germany, Redtenbacher is probably the first to have dealt intensely with curving behavior (Redtenbacher, Die Gesetze des Locomotiv–Baues, (The Laws of Design of Locomotives), 1855, [1]). In the monograph by Boedecker (Die Wirkungen zwischen Rad und Schiene und ihre Einflüsse auf den Lauf und den Bewegungswiderstand der Fahrzeuge in den Eisenbahnzügen (The effects between wheel and rail and their influences on the running behavior and the resistance of vehicles in railway trains), 1887, [2]), curving behavior is also the focus. Although the question of running on a straight line (and so the question of stability) is mentioned as a problem, the issue is, however, regarded as secondary in Boedecker’s work.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Q is the wheel–rail force perpendicular to the track plane. For cylindrical wheels, \(Q=N\).

  2. 2.

    Two- or even three-point contact is most common at the outer wheel of the leading wheelset.

  3. 3.

    The sum of all force components in the lateral direction (track plane) is called the track shift force or \(\sum Y\)-force.

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Knothe, K., Stichel, S. (2017). Quasistatic Curving Behavior. In: Rail Vehicle Dynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45376-7_14

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