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The drive towards energy savings in the railway industry have forced the railway companies and manufacturers to examine unconventional vehicle designs. The Danish State Railways together with Professor Frederich from RWTH in Aachen and the company Linke-Hoffmann-Busch have developed a steered single-axle bogie, which will save weight compared with the conventional two-axle bogie. The single-axle bogie has been built under an S-train car replacing a conventional two-axle bogie. Tests have shown that the wheels on the steered single-axle bogie wear less than the wheels on the conventional bogies, so we save both energy and material.
The purpose of the steering is mainly to secure an optimal radial position of the wheelset in curves. The running stability of the vehicle is governed by the steering in combination with the suspension once the wheel-rail geometry is given. Therefore, the suspension and the steering must be optimized with respect to both curving performance and vehicle stability. In this paper the effect of the stiffness of the steering on the stability is reported.
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Slivsgaard, E., True, H. (1997). Dynamics of a Single-Axle Steered Bogie. In: Van Campen, D.H. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Interaction between Dynamics and Control in Advanced Mechanical Systems. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 52. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5778-0_45
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