STABILITY OF MOTION OF RAILWAY VEHICLES DESCRIBED WITH LAGRANGE EQUATIONS OF THE FIRST KIND

A. G. Reidemeister; S. I. Levytska

doi:10.15802/stp2018/148023

Authors

A. G. Reidemeister Dnipropetrovsk National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7490-7180
S. I. Levytska Prydniprovsk State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6725-0280

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15802/stp2018/148023

Keywords:

railway vehicle, motion stability, differential-algebraic equations

Abstract

Purpose. The article aims to estimate the stability of the railway vehicle motion, whose oscillations are described by Lagrange equations of the first kind under the assumption that there are no nonlinearities with discontinuities of the right-hand sides. Methodology. The study is based on the Lyapunov’s stability method of linear approximation. The equations of motion are compiled in a matrix form. The creep forces are calculated in accordance with the Kalker linear theory. Sequential differentiations of the constraint equations reduced the equation system index from 2 to 0. The coefficient matrix eigenvalues of the system obtained in such a way are found by means of the QR-algorithm. In accordance with Lyapunov's criterion of stability in the linear approximation, the motion is stable if the real part of all eigenvalues is negative. The presence of «superfluous» degrees of freedom, which the mechanical system does not have (in whose motion equations there are left only independent coordinates) is not trivial. Herewith the eigenvalues and eigenvectors correspond to these degrees of freedom and have no relation to the stability. In order to find a rule that allows excluding them, we considered several models of a bogie, with rigid and elastic constraints of high rigidity at the nodes. In the limiting case of high rigidities, the results for a system without rigid constraints must coincide with the results for a system with rigid constraints. Findings. We carried out the analysis and compared the frequencies (with decrements) and the vibration modes of a three-piece bogie with and without constraints. When analysing the stability of the system with constraints, only those eigenvalues are of interest whose eigenvectors do not break the constraints. The values of these numbers are limits for the eigenvalues of the system, in which rigid constraints are replaced by elastic elements of high rigidity, which allows us to leave the Lyapunov’s criterion unchanged. Originality consists in the adaptation of Lyapunov's stability method of linear approximation to the case when the equations of railway vehicle motion are written in the form of differential-algebraic Lagrange equations of the first kind. Practical value. This written form of the equation of motion makes it possible to simplify the stability study by avoiding the selection of a set of independent generalized coordinates with the subsequent elimination of dependent ones and allows for the coefficient matrix calculation in an easily algorithmized way. Information on the vehicle stability is vitally important, since the truck design must necessarily exclude the loss of stability in the operational speed range.

Author Biographies

A. G. Reidemeister, Dnipropetrovsk National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan

Dep. «Cars and Car Facilities», Dnipropetrovsk National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan, Lazaryan St., 2, Dnipro, Ukraine, 49010, tel. +38 (056) 373 15 19, Email: reidemeister.a@gmail.com

S. I. Levytska, Prydniprovsk State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Dep. «Foreign Languages», Prydniprovsk State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Chernyshevsky St., 24 A, Dnipro, Ukraine, 49000, tel. +38 (056) 756 33 56, Email: svetik23com@ukr.net

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