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Air Brake Distributor Valve Holding Support Bracket Design and Experimental Validation for Railway Freight


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1 Department of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, IIEST, Shibpur, Howrah-711103, India
2 Executive (Engineering), Larsen & Toubro Limited, Kanchipuram-631561, India
3 NewRail Centre for Railway Research, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
     

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Present work deals with design and testing of a support bracket which is used for holding air brake distribution valve of railway freight. Five different brackets are modeled (Cero 3.0 is used for modeling) and tolerance stack up analysis for fitment of the component is checked. A detailed stress distribution pattern and lateral deflection during worst case operation are evaluated through commercially available finite element package (ANSYS 14.5). The modified design for the support bracket successfully tested and installed in the wagon.

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Modeling, ANSYS, Support Bracket, Stress Distribution, Structural Testing.
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Authors

Apurba Das
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, IIEST, Shibpur, Howrah-711103, India
Subham Upadhyay
Executive (Engineering), Larsen & Toubro Limited, Kanchipuram-631561, India
Nagvendra Kumar Kanoje
NewRail Centre for Railway Research, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom

Abstract


Present work deals with design and testing of a support bracket which is used for holding air brake distribution valve of railway freight. Five different brackets are modeled (Cero 3.0 is used for modeling) and tolerance stack up analysis for fitment of the component is checked. A detailed stress distribution pattern and lateral deflection during worst case operation are evaluated through commercially available finite element package (ANSYS 14.5). The modified design for the support bracket successfully tested and installed in the wagon.

Keywords


Modeling, ANSYS, Support Bracket, Stress Distribution, Structural Testing.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24906/isc%2F2020%2Fv34%2Fi4%2F205478