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PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Edited by: J. Pombo
Paper 31.9

Experimental validation of a railway multibody model on a scaled track

P. Urda1, S. Munoz2, J.F. Aceituno3 and J.L. Escalona1

1Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Seville, Spain
2Department of Materials and Transportation Engineering, University of Seville, Spain
3Department of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, University of Jaen, Spain

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
P. Urda, S. Munoz, J.F. Aceituno, J.L. Escalona, "Experimental validation of a railway multibody model on a scaled track", in J. Pombo, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, Online volume: CCC 1, Paper 31.9, 2022, doi:10.4203/ccc.1.31.9
Keywords: multibody railways dynamics, scaled railway vehicle, scaled track, efficient multibody formulation, weakly coupled dynamics.

Abstract
This paper presents the experimental validation of a computational multibody model of a scaled railway vehicle. Several test have been carried out using an instrumented 1:10 scaled vehicle running on a 5-inch-gauge scaled track. The computational model proposed assumes a weakly couple lateral and vertical dynamics. The obtained results show a good agreement between experiments and simulation. It has been concluded that the computational model satisfactory reproduces the scaled vehicle dynamics.

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