Do Steel Bridges Prevent Rail Corrugations?
Journal Title: Archives of Transport - Year 2010, Vol 22, Issue 1
Abstract
Rail corrugations (germ. “Schlupfwellen”) are wear pattern, which emerge during the transits of railway vehicles at narrow railway curves (R 250 m) and they are a menace to railway operators, especially if their railroad network exists in mountains. Therefore O¨ BB started recently a research program “OBO” (Optimierter Bogenoberbau) for better understanding and avoidance of “Schlupfwellen”, which is mainly experimentally oriented. As a representative test track was the extended famous narrow curve at the valley of Brixen close to Kitzb¨uhl chosen, and two Measurement sites where there established, one embedded in the ballasted track bed and another one on a steel bridge, situated in this curve. Measuring the passing trains, a rearly astonishing fact was discovered: Whereas in the ballasted track all well known typical features occur (vibration, bending and torsion of the rail,. . . ), which produce the wear created Schlupfwellen and the dedicated grumbling noise, the wheelsets run properly on the steel bridge track and pass “friendly” the associated curve segment! Dicussing the ascertained fact, it was realized that on many European steel bridges such phenomena happens! The paper ends assuming that a broad-band vibration of the rail heads upon the steel bridge reduces the friction coefficient in the wheel/rail contact area (“Flange oilers”). This can be the reason for the smooth travel at the bridge. This may also be the basis for a technical application to overcome the generation of Schlupfwellen?
Authors and Affiliations
Peter Meinke, Johannes Stephanides
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