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Semi-active Control to Reduce Lateral Vibration of Passenger Rail Vehicle Using Disturbance Rejection and Continuous State Damper Controllers

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Abstract

Purpose

In this paper, Bouc–Wen type magnetorheological fluid damper has been used to monitor the ride quality of a prevailing rail vehicle in lateral vibrations.

Methods

Modelling of the rail vehicle is done in such a manner that it has an entire 9 degrees of freedom by significant considerations of lateral, roll and yaw motions of the car body, rear, and the front chassis. 200 km/h is considered as train speed for tracks with two varying disturbances. A system consisting of multibody in VI-rail software is provided by a track input and ergo, wheel response it obtained. SIMULINK (software) is responsible for the representation of the motions of the wheel as mathematical models. Two different types of analysis are done firstly with conventional passive lateral damper and secondly with semi-active MR lateral damper in subordinate suspension. To diminish lateral vibrations, the disturbance refusal and non-stop state controller algorithms were executed to manage the damper force.

Results

Results acquired are in the form of acceleration and displacement of the center of mass of the body under consideration is done by comparing in terms of reduction indices of their vibrations. A significant improvement in the index is seen in which a semi-active lateral damper is mounted.

Conclusions

The results show that the proposed system significantly improves both, the vibration attenuation ability and the ride quality of the vehicle.

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    Sunil Kumar Sharma

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    Umesh Saini & Anil Kumar

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Sharma, S.K., Saini, U. & Kumar, A. Semi-active Control to Reduce Lateral Vibration of Passenger Rail Vehicle Using Disturbance Rejection and Continuous State Damper Controllers. J. Vib. Eng. Technol. 7, 117–129 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42417-019-00088-2

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