Abstract
In this paper the multibody model of a railroad passenger coach consisting of two rigid bogies and an elastic car body is presented. The elastic body is introduced by a floating reference frame and superimposed elastic deformations linearized with respect to the reference frame. The governing equations of motion are presented in symbolical form, where the time-invariant matrices describing the elastodynamical behavior are computed numerically in a preprocessor. To increase the computational efficiency, condensation techniques are applied and ten modes are chosen to describe the elastic behavior. Simulations of high speed travelling have been carried out with excitation from measured data of a real track. As a measure of ride comfort the acceleration at characteristic points on the coach are computed. Comparison with results obtained using a less sophisticated rigid body model show significant higher accelerations, depending on the position on the coach, too.
