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An Experimental Study of Fastening System for Analysis of Rail Uplifting on Railway Bridge Ends (철도교량 단부 상향력 해석을 위한 체결장치의 실험적 연구)

  • Kim, Jung-Hun;Lim, Nam-Hyoung;Choi, Sang-Hyun;Kang, Young-Jong
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.02a
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    • pp.307-311
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    • 2007
  • In the case of the railway bridges, uplift forces were occurred at the edge of the segments when vehicular loads were applied. These forces made the compressive and tensile forces occur in the fastening system. Therefore, the structural analysis was performed to investigate the safety of fastening system which was modeled as one directional spring element. In this case, the stiffness of the spring element was obtained from experimental study which was conducted by compressive load. For that reason, to perform rational and exact structural analysis, the translational stiffness of the fastening system obtained from the experimental study applied the tensile load and the rotational stiffness should be considered because it was occurred the tensile force as well as the compressive force in fastening system. In this study, an elastic and inelastic experimental study was performed for six specimens. The translational stiffness along the vertical axis of rail and the rotational stiffness along the strong axis of rail were investigated. Also structural behavior of the fastening system was analyzed.

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Development of turnout on concrete track using Fast clip (Fast clip을 적용한 콘크리트궤도용 분기기 개발)

  • Hwang, Kwang-Ha;Ryou, Ki-Tae;Park, Chun-Bok;Park, Kwang-Ryoun;Yun, Byung-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.1002-1008
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    • 2011
  • Turnout is a mechanical installation enabling railway trains to be guided from one track to another at a railway junction. there are classified variously according to rail type, sleeper type, fastening system, track type. Construction of concrete track are on the increase recently to secure the safety of track structure as well as to reduce the maintenance cost. SFC fastening system used the plain track a lot and for those reasons, The fast clip turnout demand growing to improving efficiency of the maintenance cost by unification of fastening clip on whole line. in this study is about development of the fastening system for new turnout using fast clip. this fastening system assembled elasticity pad underneath a base plate. its can change stiffness how to adjust contact surface area of elasticity pad Developed fastening system have passed test according to rule of KRS-TR0014-09R (rail fastening system) and Performance Certification by KR.

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An Experimental Study to Evaluate the Stiffness of Fastening Systems - Translational Stiffness along the Vertical Axis of Rail, Rotational Stiffness along the Strong Axis of Rail - (체결장치의 강성 평가를 위한 실험적 연구 - 레일 연직방향 병진강성, 레일 강축에 대한 회전강성 -)

  • Kim, Jung-Hun;Han, Sang-Yun;Lim, Nam-Hyoung;Kang, Young-Jong
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.71-78
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    • 2008
  • In the case of the railway bridges, uplift forces were occurred at the edge of the segments when vehicular loads were applied. These forces caused the compressive and tensile forces in the fastening system. In the past, a structural analysis has been performed to investigate the safety of fastening system which was modeled with one directional spring elements based on the compressive test of fastening system. In this case, the stiffness of the spring element was obtained from experimental study which was conducted by compressive load. Therefore, to perform rational and exact structural analysis, the translational stiffness of the fastening system obtained from the experimental study applied the tensile load and the rotational stiffness should be considered because it was occurred the tensile force as well as the compressive force in fastening system. In this study, an elastic and inelastic experimental study was performed for six specimens. The translational stiffness along the vertical axis of rail and the rotational stiffness along the strong axis of rail were investigated, also structural behavior of the fastening system was analyzed.

Evaluation on Damage Weak Part of Rail Fastening System for Concrete Tracks (콘크리트 궤도용 탄성레일체결장치 손상취약부 분석)

  • Choi, Jung-Youl;Kim, Sang-Jin;Chung, Jee-Seung
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.265-270
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study is to derive the damage weak part of the elastic rail fastening system for concrete tracks (System 300-1). In the concrete tracks, the elastic rail fastening system sticks the rail and the sleeper and reacts all the time when the train is running. Among the components of the rail fastening system, the resilience pad and tension clamp were fatigue members and were constantly deformed in response to compressive and uplift forces. In this study, the residual deformation characteristics of the tension clamp according to the period of use were analyzed using by specimens taken on site in the same section for 6, 11, and 16 years on the serviced urban transit. In addition, the damage mechanisms for each component were derived based on finite element analysis. As a result of the numerical analysis, the stress (strain) of each part of the tension clamp according to the external force from the applied clamping force was analyzed to derive the damaged weak part of the tension clamp.

Identification of Structural Defects in Rail Fastening Systems Using Flexural Wave Propagation (굽힘파 전파 특성을 이용한 레일체결장치의 구조 결함 진단)

  • Park, Jeongwon;Park, Junhong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.38-43
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    • 2014
  • An experimental method based on flexural wave propagation is proposed for identification of structural damage in rail fastening systems. The vibration of a rail clamped and supported by viscoelastic pads is significantly influenced by dynamic support properties. Formation of a defect in the rail fastening system induces changes in the flexural wave propagation characteristics owning to the discontinuity in the structural properties. In this study, frequency-dependent support stiffness was measured to monitor this change by a transfer function method. The sensitivity of wave propagation on the defect was measured from the potential energy stored in a continuously supported rail. Further, the damage index was defined as a correlation coefficient between the change in the support stiffness and the sensitivity. The defect location was identified from the calculated damage index.

Effect of nonlinearity of fastening system on railway slab track dynamic response

  • Sadeghi, Javad;Seyedkazemi, Mohammad;Khajehdezfuly, Amin
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.83 no.6
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    • pp.709-727
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    • 2022
  • Fastening systems have a significant role in the response of railway slab track systems. Although experimental tests indicate nonlinear behavior of fastening systems, they have been simulated as a linear spring-dashpot element in the available literature. In this paper, the influence of the nonlinear behavior of fastening systems on the slab track response was investigated. In this regard, a nonlinear model of vehicle/slab track interaction, including two commonly used fastening systems (i.e., RFFS and RWFS), was developed. The time history of excitation frequency of the fastening system was derived using the short time Fourier transform. The model was validated, using the results of a comprehensive field test carried out in this study. The frequency response of the track was studied to evaluate the effect of excitation frequency on the railway track response. The results obtained from the model were compared with those of the conventional linear model of vehicle/slab track interaction. The effects of vehicle speed, axle load, pad stiffness, fastening preload on the difference between the outputs obtained from the linear and nonlinear models were investigated through a parametric study. It was shown that the difference between the results obtained from linear and nonlinear models is up to 38 and 18 percent for RWFS and RFFS, respectively. Based on the outcomes obtained, a nonlinear to linear correction factor as a function of vehicle speed, vehicle axle load, pad stiffness and preload was derived. It was shown that consideration of the correction factor compensates the errors caused by the assumption of linear behavior for the fastening systems in the currently used vehicle track interaction models.

Statistical Characteristics for Longitudinal Friction Behavior of Rail Fastening System for Concrete Track (콘크리트 궤도용 레일체결장치의 종방향 마찰거동에 대한 통계적 특성)

  • Bae, Hyun-Ung;Park, Sang-Jun;Yun, Kyung-Min;Park, Beom-Ho;Lim, Nam-Hyoung
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.16 no.11
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    • pp.7870-7877
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    • 2015
  • In the case of CWR (Continuous welded rail) located on the railway bridge, the CWR has additional axial force due to interaction of bridge and track. Therefore, the CWR tracks located on the bridge have to secure the safety of running train and CWR track through mitigating influence for interaction of bridge and track. The railway design guide in Korea (KR C-08080) provides a certain value for property of longitudinal friction behavior of rail fastening system that is major parameter of interaction behavior by applying European codes. However, in order to apply to domestic railway, it is necessary to review property characteristics of the rail fastening system in actual use. In this paper, the experiment for longitudinal friction behavior of rail fastener applied to concrete track on the railway bridge in Korea was carried out, and statistical characteristic for property of the rail fastener was analyzed from the result of the experiment.

Behavior of Tension Clamp in Rail Fastening System (레일 체결장치 텐션클램프의 거동)

  • Choi, Shin-Hyung;Park, Beom-Ho;Yun, Kyung-Min;Bae, Hyun-Ung;Lim, Nam-Hyoung
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.16 no.12
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    • pp.8812-8819
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    • 2015
  • In a situation in which importance of rail fastening system is growing with increasing the construction of concrete track, an accident of tension clamp(the component of rail fastening system) breaking has been recently occurred. This results from various factors such as field condition, operating agency, running condition, traffic frequency and so on. Thus, the study for the behavior of tension clamp is required. In this paper, an experiment and finite element analysis(FEA) have been performed to analyse the mechanical behavior of tension clamp. The stress and displacement of tension clamp have been analyzed as the clamping force through a laboratory test, and they were compared with FEA results. Furthermore, the stress and displacement of the tension clamp are derived from train load condition applying the verified model, and the fatigue vulnerability of the tension clamp is identified through stress analysis.

Evaluation of the Performance Test Load through the Estimation of Vertical Loads on Vibration-Proof Fastening Systems (방진체결장치에 작용하는 수직하중 평가를 통한 성능시험하중 평가)

  • Yang, Sin Chu
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.777-784
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    • 2016
  • In this study, regulation of the performance test load of a vibration-proof fastening system used in urban railways was established through evaluation of the loads that it bears in the field. In order to investigate the range of the dynamic stiffness of the vibration-proof fastening system, dynamic stiffness tests were carried out for three types of vibration-proof fastening system that can be domestically supplied. Train and track interaction analyses in the frequency domain were carried out to evaluate the dynamic wheel loads. The track irregularity, which is a very important input factor in train and track interaction analysis, was considered as a PSD (Power Spectral Density) function, which was derived based on the measured data. The loads on the vibration-proof rail fastening system were evaluated considering various operating conditions in the urban railway. Regulation of the performance test load of the vibration-proof rail fastening system was established based on the evaluated loads.

Experimental Study on Characteristics of Deformation for Concrete Track on Railway Bridge Deck End induced by Bridge End Rotation (철도교량 단부 회전에 따른 콘크리트 궤도의 변형특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Lim, Jongil;Song, Sunok;Choi, Jungyoul;Park, Yonggul
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.217-225
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    • 2013
  • In this study, by considering the rail fastening support distance and the distance between the bridge and the abutment, the behavior of concrete track installed on a railway bridge end deck and the bridge end rotation were analyzed. In order to analyze the track-bridge interaction, bridge and abutment specimens with concrete track structures were designed and used in laboratory testing. At a constant fastening support distance, an increase in the bridge end rotation caused an increase in the displacement of the rail. Therefore, the displacement of the rail directly affects the rail and clip stress. Further, it is inferred that the results of multiple regression analysis obtained using measured data such as angle of bridge end rotation and fastening support distance can be used to predict the track-bridge interaction forces acting on concrete track installed on railway bridge deck ends.