Publication detail

Magnetorheological Yaw Damper with Short Response Time for Railway Vehicle Bogie

KUBÍK, M. STRECKER, Z. JENIŠ, F. MACHÁČEK, O. PŘIKRYL, M. ŠPALEK, P.

English title

Magnetorheological Yaw Damper with Short Response Time for Railway Vehicle Bogie

Type

conference paper

Language

en

Original abstract

The rail vehicle suspension setting has a significant effect on the track wear and safe movement. The yaw damper affects this behaviour because its damping prevents relative rotation between bogies and car body. So, the ideal yaw damper has zero damping at an arc or a rail-switch (low-speed), on the other hand, it has a high level of damping force at straights (high-speed). The adaptive, but especially semiactive (S/A) control of yaw damper promised better performance than passive. An important parameter is damper’s dynamics (force response time). The magnetorheological (MR) yaw damper with a short response time is presented in this paper. This MR damper achieved force of 15.6 kN in a fully activated state and 1.8 kN in de-activated state. Both values were measured at piston velocity 0.2 m/s. The primary response time of damper was 7.76 ms which is sufficient for ef-fective S/A control of yaw movement. The benefit of the MR damper in adaptive mode has been also demonstrated by driving tests on the real track.

English abstract

The rail vehicle suspension setting has a significant effect on the track wear and safe movement. The yaw damper affects this behaviour because its damping prevents relative rotation between bogies and car body. So, the ideal yaw damper has zero damping at an arc or a rail-switch (low-speed), on the other hand, it has a high level of damping force at straights (high-speed). The adaptive, but especially semiactive (S/A) control of yaw damper promised better performance than passive. An important parameter is damper’s dynamics (force response time). The magnetorheological (MR) yaw damper with a short response time is presented in this paper. This MR damper achieved force of 15.6 kN in a fully activated state and 1.8 kN in de-activated state. Both values were measured at piston velocity 0.2 m/s. The primary response time of damper was 7.76 ms which is sufficient for ef-fective S/A control of yaw movement. The benefit of the MR damper in adaptive mode has been also demonstrated by driving tests on the real track.

Keywords in English

magentorheological damper, MR damper, yaw damper, MR fluid

Released

17.02.2021

Publisher

VDE VERLAG GMBH

Location

BERLIN

ISBN

978-3-8007-5456-4

Book

Actuators 2021

Pages from–to

1–4

Pages count

4

BIBTEX


@inproceedings{BUT170453,
  author="Michal {Kubík} and Zbyněk {Strecker} and Filip {Jeniš} and Ondřej {Macháček} and Matěj {Přikryl} and Petr {Špalek},
  title="Magnetorheological Yaw Damper with Short Response Time for Railway Vehicle Bogie ",
  booktitle="Actuators 2021",
  year="2021",
  month="February",
  pages="1--4",
  publisher="VDE VERLAG GMBH",
  address="BERLIN",
  isbn="978-3-8007-5456-4"
}