Design, Analysis and Prototype Development of Railway Wagons on Different Loading Conditions

Abstract

Indian Railway is a rapidly growing field of research, and extensive efforts are being spent with the aim of improving the reliability and availability of railway systems and of substantially reducing maintenance costs by switching from time-based to event-driven maintenance policies. This Project is aimed at proving that effective Analysis can be applied also on already existing Railway Wagons & Tracks. To do this, and focusing on National and International standards, we are going to develop a Designed prototype of Railway Coaches/Wagons for the different loading conditions for optimum dimensions of the wagon in consideration with balancing of tracks and platform loading-unloading of Rolling stock System. With a proposal to design, develop, integrate, and test a Prototype of Railway Wagon & Tracks of Indian Railway that will have a conformable system for the transportation of the locomotive/electric Engines. All the components of the Coach or wagon of the engine have been rolled out on the track. Where we apply the vibration intensity ultrasonic testing and this allowed us to examine them and to assess if damage indexes corresponded to actual faults. A huge amount of data has been collected and it was possible to assess that the overall system cannot be considered as in stationary operation, neither when the train speed is constant nor when the same track is traveled. Many different techniques have been developed and tested with the aim of detecting damages, design optimization via simulation, and material research for the Accident Prevention.