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Shock and Vibration in Rail and other

Transport Modes
William C. Shust
2007
OBJECTIVE ENGINEERS, INC.
Acknowledgements
AAR / TTCI
ASF-Keystone, Union Pacific
FRA
Chicago Transit Authority
Norfolk Southern
Monsanto Company
International Truck & Engine
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No, No,
No
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Me need
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Bills
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Broad overview of shock & vibration
issues in railroading
Vibration issues
Typical mechanical shocks
Various industry test standards
Mitigation techniques
Brief comparison of other transport modes to
the rail shipping environment.
Technical conclusions
Future trends for S&V in railroading
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SHOCK & VIBRATION ISSUES
Overall car stability
Component strength
Human comfort
Cargo damage
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A closer look at the railcar
environment: dynamic excitations
Vehicle
Vehicle
Bogie and
Unsprung Mass
Bogie and
Unsprung Mass
Irregular running surfaces of wheel and rail
[Wheelflats, out-of-round wheels, wheel corrugation,
rail corrugation, dipped welds and joints, shelling, etc]
Irregular running surfaces of wheel and rail
[Wheelflats, out-of-round wheels, wheel corrugation,
rail corrugation, dipped welds and joints, shelling, etc]
Track components
[Rail bending, railpads, tie bending,
ballast and subgrade]
Track components
[Rail bending, railpads, tie bending,
ballast and subgrade]
Wheel/rail noise
[Rolling and impact noises from irregularities on
wheel and rail, and squeal from stick-slip vibration]
Wheel/rail noise
[Rolling and impact noises from irregularities on
wheel and rail, and squeal from stick-slip vibration]
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0- 500 Hz
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0 - 5000 Hz
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At the low frequency end:
rigid carbody motions
Pitch & bounce, yaw & sway, twist & roll,
lateral huntingall under 4 Hz
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60 Wavelength
Right Rail
Vertical
Position
Left Rail
Vertical
Position
0.75 Amplitude
Roll Input for AAR Chapter XI spec.
(Left and right track vertical profiles)
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Simulated operating speed (mph) over repeated 3/4-inch twist and
roll perturbations
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60ft D.C.
32ft Flatcar
0.6 Hz resonance -- Carbody roll
(constant amplitude cross-level deviations)
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Typical Twist & Roll resonance
(generic tank car, 18 mph, 39 cusps)
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More low freq. behavior ~ 2 Hz
Wheelset Lateral Hunting
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At the high frequency end -- potential
fatigue of & on circuit boards
Small mechanical
fittings on a high
frequency source
(100-200 Hz)
PC Board bending
(70-150 Hz)
Tiny cantilevered
components
(up to 1500 Hz if
small enough)
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A few peculiarities related to certain
car types
Covered hoppers high CG, car rock-off
Tank Cars tors. stiff, track twist sensitive
Conversion of 89 flats to early car haulers
Heavy duty span bolster cars (8+ axles)
Lighter weight coal cars
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Example project A: Infrequent top
chord yielding of coal cars
Suspension bottoming, or
component strength?
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bursts in 5 general groups
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Design
Limit
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Vertical Bounce Detail ~ 1.9 Hz:
Strain, neg(Accel.), Spring Deflection
Time (Secs)
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Vibration issue: Over time, a little bounce
leads to more bounce
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Quasi-static event: Rotary Car Dumper
Coal Unloading ~ highest strains of test
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Example project B: Development of a
test spec. for aftermarket hardware
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TOR nozzle location at end of sand bracket
Truck frame
Electrical control cabinet
Compressor room floor
(Note: Locations
vary slightly with
locomotive type)
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Lab tests are always a compromise
between reality and cost
Over-the-Road
Simulation,
Whole Vehicle
Sine Sweep
or Dwell,
Single Axis
Multiple Axes,
Shaped Random
Single Axis,
Shaped Random
Single Axis,
Shaped Random
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MIL-STD-810F and IEC61373 Vibration Spectra
Frequency (Hz)
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IEC bogie long. 2.0 grms
IEC bogie lat. 3.8 grms
IEC bogie vert. 4.3 grms
Single Shaker,
Random Flat PSD
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Mid-cost & moderately real: Random Shaker
Input With Same Frequency Content As Field
time (secs)
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Percentile Data Records
Random shaker drive file with
similar energy distribution; similar
but more frequent peaks
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lab RMS
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Random Vibration with similar Energy Distribution as SideFrame
(e.g. Time Compression 250X)
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Data collection on locomotive type A:
Sander Bracket
Tri-axial access. on
sander bracket:
at side frame
(upper)
at free end
(lower)
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Data collection on locomotive type B:
Sander Bracket
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Revenue Service Routes
for Locomotive Vibration Tests
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Overall Comparison Peak
Accelerations versus Location
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Field Data to Lab Test
Conversion Process
Reduce field data
Using all valid files, compute aggregate (damage-
equivalent) side frame RMS accelerations
Envelope resulting shape of severe PSDs (power
spectral densities)
Simplify PSD envelope, amplify to compress shake
table time
Select 10-20 breakpoints for PSD shape
Scale for 250:1 time compression vs. field
Augment 8-hour shaker period (per axis) with
brief segments achieving similar g level extremes as
found in field data
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Locomotive Bearing Box
Raw Vibration
time (secs)
327.4 327.5 327.6 327.7 327.8
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327.4 327.5 327.6 327.7 327.8
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251. g peak-to-
peak, vertical
direction
Almost all energy
around 500 Hz
Estimated 0.01
double amplitude
displacement
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Locomotive Bearing Box
Same data in freq. domain (PSD)
Block length = second
Bandwidth = 2 Hz
N=144 blocks
Frequency (Hz)
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Most Severe Spectra from 2 loco. types
and two service routes
Frequency (Hz)
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Lateral Spectra (Auto Parts Service)
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Lateral Spectra (Coal Service)
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PSD Envelope of Many Field Spectra
and simplified shake table Breakpoints
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Overall lateral ampl. using breakpoints: 1.8 g RMS
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Overall lateral ampl. using breakpoints: 4.47 g RMS
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Overall lateral ampl. using breakpoints: 1.8 g RMS
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Summary of Shake Table Amplitudes
(compared to MIL & Euro. specs)
Location
120-day Simulations Brief Field Extremes
Cab Vertical 0.26 1.32
0.81
Compressor Vertical 0.52 1.31
0.81
Plow Longitudinal 0.26 1.44
0.40
Sideframe Lateral 1.80 4.32
3.77
Unsprung Vertical 10.5 44.5
30.6
MIL-STD-810F Rail
Transport
0.49
MIL-STD-810F
"Minimum Integrity"
7.7
Proposed Shake Table Vibration
(g RMS)
IEC 61373
"Long Life"
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Finally Add Representative Thermal
Cycling (-40 to 130 F)
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Long.
Day 2
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Day 3
Lat.
Day
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Record Vibr. and
Sample Spray
2-Minute Field Extremes
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Proof of test: freezing, shaking & baking a
locomotive rail friction-modifier nozzle.
Electro-magnetic shaker with
15000 pounds of force
Heating/cooling source
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Collection Grid Pans to check Spray
Pattern and Application Amount
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Final product: AAR spec. of minimum
performance, before fleet installations
Clean nozzle After build-up
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Human Comfort Issues ISO-2631
(empirical weighting of spectra)
Original Signal
0.83 g rms
Energy
Spectrum
Weighting
Values
Final Area 0.63 g
weighted
0 30 Hz
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Similar process for noise dBA
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TYPICAL SHOCKS
Car coupling
In-train forces (slack action)
Wheel imperfections
Suspension bottoming out
Rattling pieces
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Coal Car Project A -- revisited
Zero Speed Yard Data, Unattended (unexplained)
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Time (Secs)
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Vertical
Car Body
Accel.
Vert.
Spring
Defl.
Top Chord
Strain
Train
Speed
1 4 1 5 1 6
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- 2 0 0 0
- 2 4 0 0
- 2 8 0 0
- 3 2 0 0
- 3 6 0 0
-4328 ue for 1/15th
sec, then 2 hours at
2000 ue before
relaxing
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x 10
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Accel
Shock events produce accelerations
with energy into higher frequencies
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Strain Gage
But unlike car bounce, the shock accelerations
are not scaled duplicates of strains
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And thus, a common 4g Design spec. will
be exceeded by high-freq. accel. data
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One coupling shock: accel. filtered at
4 freqs., and coupler load cell trace
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Similar sampling/filtering questions for
various impacts related to passing wheels.
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Collection Time(secs)
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Filter_010.sif - timehist1@RailSG4.RN_1.f.f

Collection Time(secs)
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Original Data Lowpassed at 333Hz=f
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After instead applying 10 Hz Lowpass filter
Revenue Train Sampled at 1000 Hz
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Zoom in on only 6 seconds
Original Data 333Hz=f
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Collection Time(secs)
60 61 62 63 64 65 66
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After applying 10 Hz Lowpass filter
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Collection Time(secs)
60 61 62 63 64 65 66
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Rail Strain Gage with various lowpass filtering
0%
10%
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Max is 95%
Min is 41%, Whats going on?
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Answer found by again zooming in on
the original data

Collection Time(secs)
60.00 60.25 60.50 60.75 61.00
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A SAMPLING OF INDUSTRY
STANDARDS (S&V and related issues)
Car body stability & health
Track health
Car component health
Cargo stability & health
Longitudinal shock
Human stability & comfort
Locomotive specific issues
FRA 213 Track Geometry
AAR Chapter XI, and M-
976 specs
Wheel Impact Detectors
AAR S-4200 ECP brake
spec
pending AAR brake beam
work
IEC-61373
AAR Dam. Prev. Stds.
MIL-STD-810
ISO-2631 ride comfort
AAR on-board rail
lubricator vibration spec
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Another recent example, AAR S-4200
ECP brake spec
Design to withstand:
Vibrations 0.4 g rms 1-150 Hz (with +/-3 g
peaks)
Half-sine shocks of 10g peak (20 50 msec)
If on car strength members, local
resonances can raise levels to:
15g (100-150 Hz)
50g (200-500 Hz)
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S & V MITIGATION TECHNIQUES
Limit input energy available
Track geometry standards
Wheel flat limits, wheel impact detectors
Interrupt transmission paths
Spring/elastomer isolators
between car components
between loco. structure & crew
track to ground
Add damping, stiffness, mass
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Limit the dynamic excitations to cars
via geometry or speed limits
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Title 49 CFR, Part 213
Track Safety Stds. (track geometry specs.)
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WILD Detectors: maintain wheels based on
revenue track impacts
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Transmission and reflections of rail
vibration are highly site dependent
from Transit Noise and Vibration Impact
Assessment, Hanson, Towers, and
Meister, Fed.Transit.Admin. 2006
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Earth vibration due to freight trains
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Noise, Squeal and Corrugation
(A human perception problem)
Potential Solutions
Grinding to remove
corrugation
Improve curving via
W/R profile
Lubrication
Reduce surface
roughness of wheel
turning and rail
grinding
Structural or surface changes to wheel (block or cut
sound transmission path)
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Chicago Transit Authority:
Wheel screech damper
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More costly transit N&V mitigation
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Example project C: (rarely) we come
across a beneficial use of vibration
Civil engineers brought us dynamic track
stabilization for after tamping operations
Essentially a combination of
adding stiffness/strength via aggregate material
change
delaying the time when small bounces will
beget bigger bounces
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Ballast Stabilization
(Use of vibration to control track settlement)
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Track stabilization worth about 10-20
trains of otherwise slow ordered traffic
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Thus, the desired vibration lessens chances
of this: Lateral Track (Panel) Shift
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Another potential beneficial use
From this campus, Dr. Weavers
research on rail neutral temperature
Wavelength of high frequency rail
vibrations changes with longitudinal
stress on the rail
Goal: Non-destructive determination of
rail neutral temperature.
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RAIL VIBRATION
COMPARED TO
OTHER TRANSIT
MODES
(Example projects C & D)
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First
some
antique
video
footage
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Moving Cargo, Containers and Operators
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Evolved from two projects involving
weld failures on ISO tank containers
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Unattended Container Shock Record
(Does/does not exceed 4g Design Std?)
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1
-30
-20
-10
0
10
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g
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v
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(
g
)
SN 13392 Event 39, Long.
Original extremum value: 20.4
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1
-10
-5
0
5
F
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t
e
r
e
d

V
a
l
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s

(
g
)
Time (sec)
8.6 = extremum after 90 Hz lowpass
3.5 = " " 40 Hz "
2.5 = " " 30 Hz "
1.3 = " " 16 Hz "
-20.4 g raw data?
-2.5g after 30 Hz lowpass filter
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Well then, this is a much lower
frequency event, surely it is abusive
-30.0
-22.5
-15.0
-7.5
0.0
+7.5
+15.0
+22.5
+30.0
0.0 0.1 0.199 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0
g
Seconds
g gg
X Y Z
Integrating the accel. signal yields
a velocity change of 102 mph in
1/3 second. Invalid data!
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Vibration
for many
vehicles
compared
(Bob Fries,
N.Cooper-
rider 1993)
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TECHNICAL OBSERVATIONS
The highway truck environment is generally more
harsh on cargo & humans than rail. Shipboard
environment is generally less harsh than rail. Ship
environment is more like a factory floor.
Low frequencies (<15 Hz) strains ~ accels.
Less true as frequency content increases
Not true for raw shock data
Field data is incomparable to any other criteria or
test without knowing the sampling & filtering
Ground borne vibrationsrules of thumb
Twice the train speed ~ twice the vibration
Twice the distance from track ~ half the vibr.
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Observed & periodic opportunity for
engineering confusion
Car
Model
+V
A
Load Measuring Axle
+Y
+L
B
+L
A
+T
+V
B
+Z
+X
+T
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Another test risk:
small populations
Four strain gages at
same locations on
cantilever beam
next to fixed end.
(22 long,
3 wide,
1/16 thick)
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Strain variations, even with careful
attention to similar gage placement
Time (secs)
25.3 25.4 25.5 25.6 25.7
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
-50
-100
-150
-200
-250
g
a
g
e
3

(
m
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r
o
s
t
r
a
i
n
)
4 gages at 1st bending freq. ~ 3 Hz
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
-50
-100
-150
-200
-250
g
a
g
e
4

(
m
i
c
r
o
s
t
r
a
i
n
)
13%
Variation in
Peak-to-
peak
g3 = 543ue
g4 = 502ue
g7 = 477ue
g8 = 521ue
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What about variations on a railcar?
Structural member strains, Left vs. Right

time(secs)
245 250 255
-200
-100
0
100
200
300

50% difference in
amplitude.
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Final reminder:
accelerations vs. strains
CB_VT_SQBURST.SIF Channel 4

-8
-6
-4
-2
0
2
4
CB_VT_SQBURST.SIF - Channel 5

-200
-100
0
100
200
300
CB_VT_SQBURST.SIF - Channel 6

time(secs)
245 250 255 260 265
-400
-200
0
200
400
600
Low freq. correlation, but not at high freqs.
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Wrap-up: industry trends relating to
S&V
Perfect engineering specification
would fail 100.0% of latent bad designs or processes,
while passing 100.0% of the good.
Actual specifications tended to promote certain
dimensional tolerances, minimum design strengths,
or perfunctory initial performancenot perfect.
For about a decade, advances in technology
have gradually begun to provide operational
feedback, largely due to monitoring shock
and/or vibration (or close cousins).
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Implementation risks
This monitoring of S&V (or close cousins) can be
infinitely more complex than the old visual
inspection. Thus, there is much concern about the
false positives or negatives.
Fortunately, the industry is gradually moving ahead:
Wheel Impact Monitors
Acoustic Bearing Signatures
Excessive Railcar Bounce
Peak Wheel Forces
Yard Coupling Shocks, or desired lack thereof
etc.
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Two opinions about S&V work in
railroading
PLUS: In an otherwise mature industry,
further exploiting shock and vibration to assist
business decisions holds great opportunity for
rail engineers.
MINUS: Fostering adoption of these
technologies requires great patience and
persistence. (Railroads, suppliers, shippers,
car owners, and the FRA have a complicated
and symbiotic relationship. In some cases,
these newer and more effective specifications
redistribute costs. This may be unpopular.)
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Example project E: 1994 brake beam tests.
Adoption of standards is still in-process
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Give an engineer just a simple request
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And the engineer will aim to please
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Engineering Information
is not the same thing as
test (or analysis) data
Like Dilbert, we need to
provide information, not just
data, Here is $7.14, you owe
me five & a quarter.

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