Journal of the Korean Society for Railway (한국철도학회논문집)

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A Study on Evaluation Method of Ride Comfort Considering Superimposition of Vertical and Horizontal Curve

종곡선과 평면곡선 경합을 고려한 승차감 평가기법에 관한 연구

  • Received : 2010.03.30
  • Accepted : 2010.05.31
  • Published : 2010.06.26
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Abstract

When the horizontal and vertical curves are superimposed in railway alignments, which affects the running stability, ride comfort, and track maintenance costs. However, when designing new lines or realigning existing ones, there are many cases of superimposition caused by the existing fixed points (bridge, tunnel, turnout, and catenary system, etc) on the conventional lines and undesirable impacts on the environment, etc. In this study, when the horizontal and vertical curves are superimposed, in order to optimize the horizontal curve in aspect of the ride comfort, the object function was developed and verified by vehicle dynamic analysis. Also, the solution algorithm for simplified evaluation method was presented.

철도선형에서 평면곡선과 종곡선의 경합은 차량의 주행안정성, 승차감, 그리고 궤도유지보수비에 많은 영향을 끼친다. 그러나 신선건설 혹은 기존선 개량 시 기존의 고정점(터널, 교량, 분기기, 전차선주 등)들과 예기치 않은 주위 환경조건들에 의해 부득이 부설될 경우가 발생된다. 본 연구에서는 평면곡선과 종곡선 경합 시 승차감 측면에서의 최적 평면선형 설계를 위한 승차감 목적함수를 도출하고 차량동역학 해석을 통해 검증하였다. 또한 제시된 승차감 목적함수를 이용해 승차감이 최대가 되는 선형조건을 간단히 평가할 수 있는 해법알고리즘을 제시하였다.

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