Research on Dynamic Characteristics of Gauge Change Bogies

Abstract

Gauge change bogies have been extensively developed to solve the problem of different railway track gauges (narrow, standard, broad) among countries. This paper summarizes the different kinds of the gauge change bogies over the world. And the gauge change bogies are classified into two types, which are the bogie with independently rotating wheels and the one with traditional wheelsets, by referring to the patterns of the relatively rotation of the vehicle wheels. In this study, according to the performance characteristics of these two kinds of gauge change bogies, the dynamic characteristics between them are compared and analyzed by using SIMPACK simulation software based on vehicle dynamics theory.