The Open Mechanical Engineering Journal

2015, 9 : 266-270
Published online 2015 April 17. DOI: 10.2174/1874155X01509010266
Publisher ID: TOMEJ-9-266

Strength Analysis and Experiment of High Speed Railway Gearbox Bracket

Jianwei Yang , Minghan Yang , Xi Li and Xing Wang
School of Machine-electricity and Automobile Engineering, Beijing University of Civil Engineering Architecture, Beijing, 100044, P.R. China.

ABSTRACT

Light-weighting of high speed railway equipments has become a major trend, which leads to the upgradations of equipments. A new C-shaped bracket has been produced to connect the driving gearbox with the bogie. This paper built a three-dimensions model of a C-shaped bracket, got the maximum distribution of the stress and deformation under two different working conditions from finite element analysis (FEA). Then it presents a method to perform a corresponding experiment. It is observed that the computed values form FEA are in very good agreement with the experimental values, which both verified the structural strength of this C-shaped bracket.

Keywords:

C-shaped bracket, Finite element analysis, High speed railway, Structural strength experiment.