PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Nangolo, Fillemon
AU  - Soukup, Josef
TI  - The Effect of Asymmetry on Vertical Dynamic Response of Railway Vehicles
DP  - 2014 Oct 1
TA  - Manufacturing Technology Journal
PG  - 375--380
VI  - 14
IP  - 3
AID - 10.21062/ujep/x.2014/a/1213-2489/MT/14/3/375
IS  - 12132489
AB  - An experimental and analytical study on the effect of asymmetry on vertical dynamic response of railway vehicles has been conducted. The experimental study featured a typical vehicle model of laboratory scale and a real railway vehicle wagon. The experiment was used to gain insight into the effect of asymmetry on vertical dynamic response and to validate an analytical model of the vehicle-track interaction. This paper presents the results from the study and shows that mechanical asymmetry changes the behaviors of the system. The current contribution introduces a methodology of analytical solution of vertical dynamic response of the railway vehicle. Moreover, a mathematical model according to the physical system considered was developed under MATLAB environment.