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PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Edited by: J. Pombo
Paper 31.2

Railroad track model parameter estimation by frequency response function analysis

J.F. Aceituno1, R. Chamorro2 and J.L. Escalona2

1Mechanical and Mining Engineering Department, University of Jaen, Spain
2Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department, University of Seville, Spain

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
J.F. Aceituno, R. Chamorro, J.L. Escalona, "Railroad track model parameter estimation by frequency response function analysis", in J. Pombo, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, Online volume: CCC 1, Paper 31.2, 2022, doi:10.4203/ccc.1.31.2
Keywords: railway multibody dynamics, vehicle-track interaction, frequency response function, optimization.

Abstract
This paper shows a procedure to determine the mechanical properties of a simple track flexible model to be used in the multibody simulation of railway vehicles. The procedure is based on the frequency response function of the track in the range of frequencies in which the simple model is desired to be used. This work applies, as an example, the proposed procedure to a scaled railroad track available at the Authors’ facilities with a 10-DOF simple track model showing its applicability, range of operation, and ease of implementation, which can be easily extended at full-scale tracks with similar simplified track models.

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