摘要

In this paper, the dynamic responses of a moving vehicle traversing over railway track with fastening system failure were investigated using a vehicle/track coupling system model. In this model, the moving vehicle is developed by multi-body dynamics, and the direct fixation track is modeled by finite element method, where the rail is treated as an Euler-Bernoulli beam supported by fastening systems. An invalidation factor is used to determine the failure of the fastening system. The Hertzian spring is adapted to model the wheel/rail contact force between the moving wheel set and the rail. The proposed vehicle/track system model is verified with some field testing results in Zhengzhou subway. To solve the vehicle/track system model with nonlinear contact force, an iterative procedure is proposed. The effects of fastening system failure on the responses of the vehicle and track are investigated. It indicates that the wheel/rail contact force varies abruptly when the vehicle passing over the fastening system failure zone, which result in track deterioration.