Rail Track Analysis using DLOAD & VDLOAD subroutines in Abaqus

🚀🚀🚀The tutor is: Pranjal Mandhaniya
This tutorial discusses the dynamic response of ballasted rail tracks under moving loads, highlighting the importance of rail track analysis through a Dynamic Impact Factor (DIF). DIF reflects the dynamic effects of moving loads, wheel-rail interactions, and track irregularities, and is defined as the ratio of dynamic or quasi-static load to static load. Critical speed, analogous to the resonance frequency, is a key concept where peak vibrations occur at specific speeds.

The study uses simulation models to analyze the dynamic response and critical speed of railway tracks, focusing on factors like material properties, reinforcement elements, damping, and stiffness of the track’s substructure layers. Laboratory experiments are costly, but software simulations, particularly using ABAQUS, are cost-effective and versatile. The study involves simulating track layers as elastoplastic materials with damping properties to measure stress, displacement, velocity, and acceleration, considering the shear strength parameters of the subgrade.

⚡In this tutorial, the DLOAD and VDLOAD subroutines are used to simulate moving loads without wheels using.


🤔Why is Railway Track Analysis Important?
Railway tracks endure immense stress from passing trains. This video explores:
✅Dynamic Impact Factor (DIF): Quantifying the impact of moving loads on the track.
✅Critical Speed: Identifying the train speeds that induce maximum vibrations in the track.
✅Parameter Influence: Understanding how material properties, track geometry, and load conditions affect track behavior.

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