| Popis: |
It is a well-known fact that railway dynamics is far from being trivial, mostly because of the wheel/rail contact phenomenon. Except for specialists in this field who are obviously familiar with notions like wheelset equivalent conicity, hunting motion, limit cycles, etc., most of people, including engineers, have no or few idea about the guidance principle of railway vehicles equipped with standard bogies with rigid wheelsets. The present project has been initiated at the Center for Research in Mechatronics of the Université catholique de Louvain within the framework of a master thesis under our supervision. The main objective is essentially educational and led us to build an experimental bench to highlight the wheel/rail guidance phenomenon of railway vehicles. |
