Railway turnout (RT) is a crucial component of railway infrastructure that consists of several components. Assessing the derailment probability of freight wagons passing through the turnout is crucial for quantifying failure risks and optimizing the performance of the freight wagon-turnout system (FWTS). However, existing assessment methods often require extensive model evaluations and impose substantial computational costs. To address this issue, an efficient reliability analysis method is established for assessing the derailment risk at RTs. Firstly, a dynamic model is developed to capture the wheel-rail dynamic interaction and the numerical model is validated by field tests. Secondly, to reduce the computational cost in the reliability analysis, an efficient adaptive Kriging method based on an error stopping criteria and a learning function is adopted to estimate the failure probabilities under multiple failure modes of wheel derailments. Based on the efficient learning function and convergence criterion, accurate failure probability results can be obtained with a small number of multibody and finite element coupled dynamic simulations. Furthermore, the prediction accuracy of the proposed method in capturing random characteristics for FWTS is evaluated. Finally, the influence of the evolution of rail wear on the failure probability is further discussed.


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    Title :

    Reliability assessment of freight wagon passing through railway turnouts using adaptive Kriging surrogate model


    Additional title:

    J. LAI ET AL.
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RAIL TRANSPORTATION


    Contributors:
    Lai, Jun (author) / Wang, Kai (author) / Shi, Yan (author) / Xu, Jingmang (author) / Chen, Jiayin (author) / Wang, Ping (author) / Beer, Michael (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2025-01-02


    Size :

    20 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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