Assessment of the Passenger Ride Comfort for a Coach by Means of Simulation Computations

• Main Authors: Dižo Ján, Blatnický Miroslav, Melnik Rafał
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2017-11-01
• Series: LOGI
• Subjects: ride comfort; passengers; rail vehicle; track section; computer simulation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/logi-2017-0013

The ride comfort for passenger represents an important aspect of a rail vehicle dynamic analysing. The computational software utilisation helps to determine forces and accelerations in various positions through the body of a rail vehicle in order to predict ride properties or evaluate ideas for ride comfort in advance. This article is focused on the dynamic simulation of a rail vehicle running on a real track section. The rail vehicle model creation, computations performance and determination of accelerations badly needed for the ride comfort evaluation is performed in commercial software package.