• Composites Research
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.9-16
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• 2011

This paper describes the crashworthiness evaluation and performance improvement of tilting train made of sandwich composites. The applied sandwich composite of carbody structure was composed of aluminum honeycomb core and glass/epoxy & carbon/epoxy laminate composite facesheet. Crashworthiness analysis of tilting train was carried out using explicit finite element analysis code LS-DYNA 3D. The 3D finite element model and 1D equivalent model were applied to save the finite element modeling and calculation time for crash analysis. The crash conditions of tilting train were conducted according to four crash scenarios of the Korean railway safety law. It found that the crashworthiness analysis results were satisfied with the performance requirements except the crash scenario-2. In order to meet the crashworthiness requirements for crash scenario-2, the stiffness reinforcement for the laminate composite cover and metal frames of cabmask structure was proposed. Consequentially, it has satisfied the requirement for crash scenario-2.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.604-613
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• 2018

In recent years, numerous train derailment accidents caused by deterioration and high speed technology of railways have increased. Guardrails or barriers of railway bridges are installed to restrain and prevent the derailment of the train body level. On the other hand, it can result in a high casualties and secondary damage. Therefore, a Derailment Containment Provision (DCP) within the track at the wheel/bogie level was developed. DCP is designed for rapid installation because it reduces the impact load on the barrier and inertia force on the steep curve to minimize turnover, fall, and trespass on the other side track of the bridge. In this paper, DCP was analyzed using LS-Dyna with a parameter study as the impact loading location and interface contact condition. The contact conditions were analyzed using the Tiebreak contact simulating breakage of material properties and Perfect bond contact assuming fully attached. As a result, the Tiebreak contact behaved similarly with the actual behavior. In addition, the maximum displacement and flexural failure was generated on the interface and DCP center, respectively. The impact analysis was carried out in advance to confirm the DCP design due to the difficulties of performing the actual impact test, and it could change the DCP anchor design as the analysis results.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07b
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• pp.1119-1120
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• 2006

고속철도 운행 및 급증하는 철도교통 수요에 대처하기 위해 기존선 속도향상이 요구됨에 따라 180km/h급 틸팅차량을 개발 중에 있다. 일반적으로 곡선부에서 승객들의 승차감을 위해 열차의 통과속도를 제한하지만 틸팅차량은 대차에 틸팅장치를 장착하여 차량의 곡선 통과속도를 향상시킬 수 있다. 곡선부에서 증가된 속도로 이 열차를 주행할 수 있도록 허용할 뿐만 아니라, 운전자의 실수, 고속주행으로 인한 탈선을 예방하기 위해 연속적으로 열차속도를 감시하는 것이 필요하다. 게다가, 기존선의 어떤 구간에서는 엄격한 틸팅의 승인이 있어야 하는 구간이 존재할지도 모른다. 틸팅열차가 열차간 충돌, 터널, 다리, 반대편의 열차와 충돌을 피해만 한다. 이러한 문제점의 해결은 TASS장치의 개발과 설치로 해결될 수 있다. 본 논문은 EMU 타입 틸팅열차에 적합한 TASS 장치의 적용방안을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.11-18
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• 2011

This paper proposed a new 2-D multi-body dynamic modeling technique to analyze overriding behaviors taking place during train collision. This dynamic model is composed of nonlinear springs, dampers and masses by considering the deformable characteristics of carbodies as well as energy absorbing structures and components. By solving this dynamic model for rollingstock, energy absorbing capacities of collision elements, accelerations of passenger sections, impact forces applied to interconnecting devices, and overriding displacements can be well estimated. For a case study, we chose KHST (Korean High Speed Train), obtained crush characteristic data of each carbody section from 3-D finite element analysis, and established a 2-D multi-body dynamic model. This 2-D dynamic model was simulated under the train-to-train collision scenarios, and evaluated with 3-D virtual testing model. It was founded from the simulation results that this 2-D dynamic model could well predict overriding behaviors, and the modeling technique of carbody deformation was very important in overriding estimation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07d
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• pp.2646-2648
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• 2005

열차는 타 교통수단에 비하여 정시성과 안전성이 우수하다는 장점을 가지고 있다. 이러한 열차의 정시성을 유지하는데 있어서 열차 경합에 대한 대응은 매우 중요한 용소이다. 열차 경합은 열차와 열차간의 충돌로 정의된다. 이러한 열차의 경합은 두 열차의 각 역에서의 도착 및 출발시각을 변경함으로써 해결할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 전문가 시스템 및 제약조건 만족 기법을 이용하여 열차 경합을 해소하는 알고리즘을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.79-84
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• 2013

The definition and classification of shunting, which involves the process of sorting rolling stock into complete train sets inside station yard, are not clearly specified in Korean domestic safety regulations for railway operations. As a result, collisions during shunting occur rather frequently compared with other types of accidents in railway operations. Therefore, new systematic safety principles are proposed in this paper to improve operation safety during shunting. The improvements in safety and efficiency derived from the newly proposed approach are analyzed and verified in field application.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.300-310
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• 2008

Through this study, a conceptual design for the next generation high-speed EMU has been derived to meet the crash worthiness requirements of the Korean rollingstock safety regulation. The crashworthiness regulations require some performance requirements for two heavy collision accident scenarios; a train-to-train collision at the relative speed of 36 km/h, and a collision against a standard deformable obstacle of 15 ton at 110km/h. The complete train set will be composed of 2TC-6M with 13 ton axle load, which is different from KTX with the power car of 17 ton axle load. Using theoretical and numerical analyses, a crashworthy conceptual design was derived in terms of mean crush forces and energy absorptions for principal crushable structures and devices. The derived conceptual design was evaluated and improved using one dimensional dynamic simulations for the bar-spring-damper-mass model. It is shown from the simulation results that the suggested conceptual design can easily satisfy domestic crashworthiness requirements.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.139-146
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• 2010

In this study, a new equivalent modeling technique of rollingstock for 1-D collision dynamics was proposed using crash analysis of 3-D finite element model in some detail. To obtain good simulation results of 1-D dynamic model, the force-deformation curves of crushable structures should be well modelled with crash analysis of 3-D finite element model. Up to now, the force-deformation curves of the crushable structures have been extracted from crash analyses of sectionally partitioned parts of the carbody, and integrated into 1-D dynamic model. However, the results of the 1-D model were not satisfactory in terms of crash accelerations. To improve this problem, the force-deformation curves of the crushable structures were extracted from collision analysis of a simplified train consist in this study. A comparative study applying the suggested technique shows in good agreements in simulation results between two models for KHST.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.333-340
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• 2011

The purpose of this paper is to develop two kinds of finite element models for the heavy deformable obstacle defined in grade crossing collision scenario of the Europe TSI and the Korean rolling stock safety regulations and to apply the crashworthiness evaluation for the Korean high-speed EMU with the FE model. The numerical models of the heavy obstacle were changed from a past rigid one to a current deformable one whose stiffness requirement should be verified by a collision simulation defined in the regulations. Through several trial simulations, two types of numerical models for the heavy obstacle were developed, which satisfied physical properties specifies in the regulations. One is a solid-type obstacle with uniform density and the other is a shell-type. With the obstacles developed in this study, the grade crossing collision scenario for Korean high-speed EMU was simulated and evaluated for the two-type obstacle models. From the simulation results, the shell and solid-type obstacles showed quite different behaviors after collision, and the shell type model gave more severe results.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2006.05b
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• pp.265-269
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• 2006