Verification of elastically supported beam model for growth mechanism analysis of rail corrugation

Abstract

Rail corrugation that causes the vibration and the noise is a phenomenon in which roughness patterns of approximately regular wavelengths are formed on the rail running surface by trains running. In the previous paper, we have already explained the growth mechanism and the wavelength determination mechanism of the rail corrugation from the dynamic point of view and verified their validity by comparing them with the field data. In this paper, we verify three influence factors of the elastically supported beam model left as subjects in the previous paper. As a result of analyses, it is confirmed that when the track structure is usually used type, the effect of the rail axial force on the growth mechanism of the rail corrugation and the error compared with the analysis results by the model of the moving coordinate system are negligible, and the analysis by the elastically supported beam model is valid including at near the anti-resonance frequency of the elastic support track system.