A review of the current use of multibody dynamics methods in the analysis of the dynamics of
vehicles is given. Railway vehicle dynamics as well as road vehicle dynamics are …

Wheel and rail wear is a fundamental problem in the railway field: the change of profile
shape deeply affects the dynamic characteristics of railway vehicles such as stability or …

Semi-active suspensions are seen as a promising technology to improve ride quality in high-
speed railway vehicles as they provide substantial benefits not achievable through an …

Appropriate modelling of the dynamic behaviour of the vehicle components, particularly car
body flexibility, is essential in the analysis of railway vehicle comfort performance, especially …

This paper investigates the effect of different models for track flexibility on the simulation of
railway vehicle running dynamics on tangent and curved track. To this end, a multi-body …

Monitoring the condition of the infrastructure based on measurements coming from in-
service trains is a recent trend in the policies of railway infrastructure managers and is seen …

In particular locations of the high-speed track, the worn wheel profile matched up with the
worn rail profile will lead to an extremely high-conicity wheel–rail contact. Consequently, the …

This paper presents a semi-analytical solution to free and forced vibrations of a pinned–
pinned Euler-Bernoulli curved beam, and extends it into train-track spatial interactions. The …

In recent years, significant studies have focused on monitoring the track geometry
irregularities through measurements of vehicle dynamics acquired onboard. Most of these …

The paper proposes a mathematical model of train–turnout interaction in the mid-frequency
range (0–500 Hz). The model accounts for the effects of rail profile variation along the track …