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Journal of Mechanical Engineering ›› 2025, Vol. 62 ›› Issue (6): 359-369.doi: 10.3901/JME.260199

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Analysis of the Vertical Dynamic Response of the Carbody When the Subway Vehicle Runs on the Bridge

QIN Qingyang, TAO Gongquan, WEN Zefeng, REN Yu   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Rail Transit Vehicle System, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031
  • Received:2025-05-21 Revised:2025-12-11 Published:2026-05-12

Abstract: The coupled vibration behavior of vehicles and bridges has an important influence on the running safety and ride comfort of the vehicle. A vector form intrinsic finite-element method is used to establish the train-track-bridge coupling vibration model of a subway express line in China. The model considers the track and bridge as Euler beams, but the carbody, bogie frames, and wheelsets are treated as rigid bodies. The accuracy of the model is verified by using the vibration test data of the vehicle. The model is used to analyze the influencing factors of the dynamic response of the caybody when it runs on the bridge. The results show that the carbody generates obvious pitch resonance when it runs on the bridge at a speed of 114 km/h. The acceleration amplitudes of the left front and right rear floors of the carbody are the same, but the vibration phase of the left front and right rear floors is basically opposite. Varying the operating speed of the vehicle and increasing the damping coefficient of the secondary suspension can reduce the acceleration response of the carbody's pitch resonance. The operating speed of pitching resonance increases with increasing the bridge span, but the corresponding passing frequencies are all around 0.943 Hz. Compared to the bridge span of 30 m, the maximum pitch acceleration of the carbody is significantly reduced when the vehicle passes through the bridge with spans of 24 m and 36 m.

Key words: vector form intrinsic finite element, vehicle-track-bridge dynamic interaction, vertical response, pitch resonance

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