A Method for Improving Stability of Continuous Welded Rail Based on Adjusting Direction Irregularity of Guard Rail
In order to fully utilize the guard rail,a finite element method was used to establish a stability analysis model for continuous welded rail(CWR),and the influence of the initial bending direction of the guard rail on the stability of CWR was studied.A method for improving the stability of CWR by adjusting the irregularity of the guard rail direction was proposed based on the requirements of track irregularity and the net distance limit between the guard rail and the basic rail head,and simulation verification was conducted.The results show that when the initial bending direction of the guard rail is opposite to the basic rail,the stability of the CWR can be improved,and the degree of improvement increases with the increase of the curve radius.Taking track irregularity as the initial bending of the steel rail,the lateral displacement of the outer basic rail is significantly reduced,and the allowable temperature rise of the steel rail is significantly increased after using the method described in this article to adjust the unevenness of the guard rail direction.When the curve radius is 3 000 m,considering the most unfavorable working condition of seamless guard rail,the method proposed in this article can increase the allowable temperature rise of CWR by 31.9℃.This method is applicable to different curve radius conditions and has a more significant effect on improving the stability of CWR with larger curve radius.
heavy haul railwayguard railnumerical calculationstabilityCWRtrack direction irregularityinitial bending direction