Modeling the influence of short wavelength defects in a railway track on the dynamic behavior of the Non-Suspended Masses

Abstract The motion of a railway vehicle on the rail running table, that is the area of the rail-head where the wheel is rolling, is a forced oscillation with a forcing excitation (track defects), and damping expressed by a random function. In the case of the Non-Suspended Masses the forces resulting from the excitation of short wavelength are large and have great effect on the rolling of the wheel. The track, is simulated as an elastic means with damping. In this paper the second order differential equation is presented for the case of a railway vehicle rolling on a railway track and its solution is presented for the Non-Suspended Masses of the vehicle. Furthermore the influence of the depth of the defect is examined and a sensitivity analysis of the influence of the Non-Suspended Masses and the track defects on the Acting loads is performed.