Strength Comparision of a Double-Deck Train Carbody by Optimization of the Underframe Thicknesses

언더프레임 두께 최적화에 따른 2층열차의 구조강도비교

Aluminum alloy is very useful material for high speed transportations due to its high strength and light weight characteristics. Especially because of a weight reduction a large extrustion of aluminum alloy carbody has been manufactured. This aluminum extruded panel is a hallow extruded panel. This shape and thickness is various by designer's sense and experience and VAW's profiles. So it is important to find an optimized shape and thickness of AEP. In this study we get the AEP's thickness to minimize a weight by applying an applying an optimization algorithm. The results of the study can be used as basic guidelines double-deck trains in the future.