Stress load and durability analysis of railway vehicles using multibody approach

Abstract

The present paper describes the CAE-based approach for durability analysis that is being implemented in Universal Mechanism software to predict the fatigue damage of parts of mechanical systems. The approach predicts fatigue strength of structural components of machines and mechanisms based on results of simulating their dynamics taking into account real working conditions. An application to the developedsoftware to a stress load and durability analysis is considered.

Keywords

• CAE-based approach
• Universal Mechanism software
• durability analysis