Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2025, 27(1):B53-B64 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2025.007

Effects of Movement Direction through a Switch on Accelerations and Natural Frequencies of a Pneumatic Suspension of High-Speed Rolling Stock

Andrii Kuzyshyn ORCID...1, *, Vitalii Kovalchuk ORCID...1, Yuriy Royko ORCID...2
1 Department of Railway Transport, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine
2 Department of Transport Technologies, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine

The research object is a pneumatic spring of the second stage of spring suspension of the high-speed railway rolling stock in movement conditions by a switch. Full-scale dynamic tests of a pneumatic spring for the high-speed railroad rolling stock were carried out. It was found that the average values of vertical accelerations in the trailing and facing directions in the wind turbines moving by the switch are 1.307 m.s-2 and 1.279 m.s-2, respectively. The ratio of the average values of longitudinal accelerations in the trailing and facing directions within the wind turbines is 1.01, and at the wind turbine bases is 2.15. It is found that the average value of the first natural frequency of oscillations of the pneumatic spring is 3.53 Hz, while the logarithmic decrement of the oscillation attenuation is 0.321.

Keywords: rolling stock, pneumatic spring, switch, acceleration, frequency, logarithmic decrement
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The authors express their gratitude to the management and staff of the design bureau of the Kryukiv Carriage Works for providing pneumatic springs and consultations on research into the features of their operation.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Received: July 22, 2024; Accepted: October 14, 2024; Prepublished online: November 6, 2024; Published: January 2, 2025  Show citation

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Kuzyshyn, A., Kovalchuk, V., & Royko, Y. (2025). Effects of Movement Direction through a Switch on Accelerations and Natural Frequencies of a Pneumatic Suspension of High-Speed Rolling Stock. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 27(1), B53-64. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2025.007
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