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Finite Element Analysis of Cartridge Tapered Roller Bearing of Freight Wagon


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Freight trains run under high service loads during consignment loading and operation so tapered roller bearings are ideally suited to wheel bearing applications. The tapered roller bearings used in the railway industry are of a standard design fixed by the American Association of Railroads regulations. Nowadays rail industry improves the train operating speeds, which means that failure of a bearing will result into a derailment, affecting human lives, network disruption, and damage to the railroad, unplanned maintenance costs, and generating fear in general public about rail transport. So the rail industry has focused on the improvement in maintenance work and improvement in component design. This paper discusses the results of finite element analysis and model analysis of Cartridge Tapered Roller bearing (CTRB). Solid modelling of CTRB has been done using solid works. The CTRB is then discretized using ANSYS software and 3D hexahedral solid elements are used to mesh the components. The effect of vibration modes on the dynamic behaviour and stability of wagon is described. Frequencies up to a range of 100 Hz are considered for mode shapes.

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Railways Vehicle, Cartridge Tapered Roller Bearing, Natural Frequency, Mode Shapes, Finite Element Method.
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Authors

Parbant Singh
Dept. of Mech. Engg., IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
S. P. Harsha
Dept. of Mech. Engg., IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India

Abstract


Freight trains run under high service loads during consignment loading and operation so tapered roller bearings are ideally suited to wheel bearing applications. The tapered roller bearings used in the railway industry are of a standard design fixed by the American Association of Railroads regulations. Nowadays rail industry improves the train operating speeds, which means that failure of a bearing will result into a derailment, affecting human lives, network disruption, and damage to the railroad, unplanned maintenance costs, and generating fear in general public about rail transport. So the rail industry has focused on the improvement in maintenance work and improvement in component design. This paper discusses the results of finite element analysis and model analysis of Cartridge Tapered Roller bearing (CTRB). Solid modelling of CTRB has been done using solid works. The CTRB is then discretized using ANSYS software and 3D hexahedral solid elements are used to mesh the components. The effect of vibration modes on the dynamic behaviour and stability of wagon is described. Frequencies up to a range of 100 Hz are considered for mode shapes.

Keywords


Railways Vehicle, Cartridge Tapered Roller Bearing, Natural Frequency, Mode Shapes, Finite Element Method.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4273/ijvss.10.3.04