Influences of Suspended Equipment under Car Body on High-speed Train Ride Quality

A vertical dynamics model of rigid-flexible coupling railway vehicle including suspended device under chassis is built. Using this model, the influences of devices suspending methods on ride quality of high-speed train are analyzed with the covariance method. Results show that the reasonable parameters of the equipments, which are used to suspend devices under car body, can effectively suppress the vibration of the flexible car body. And the suspending equipment stiffness dominates in the anti-vibration effects. Devices with elastic suspending would better be close to the centre of car body and the bigger the device mass is, the better the ride quality of the car body centre will be achieved. The optimal static deflection point of elastic suspending equipment will change and fluctuate with the change of the vehicle running speed. With the static deflection of about 6mm, the high-speed train in this paper will achieve better ride quality and the vibration of suspended device will be acceptable. (c) 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Society for Automobile, Power and Energy Engineering