FEA (FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS) OF RAIL WHEEL OF VANDE-BHARAT EXPRESS WHEN ITS SPEED UPGRADED UP TO 400 KM/H
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.67772/b5wt5c59Keywords:
Vande-Bharat Express, Railway , speed, CAE analysis, IndiaAbstract
Vande-Bharat train is a semi-high speed train of India which is designed to run at a speed of 180 km/h. But according to the railway track infrastructure available in India, it can run at a maximum speed of 160 kilometers per hour. In the future, there are plans to build some special railway corridors on which the speed of trains is planned to be increased from 180 to 380 km/h .As announced by our current Railway Minister Shri Ashwin Vaishnav ji in IREE-2025, Since then a curiosity arises in the mind which is also the topic of this research. What modifications will we have to make to the design of the Vande-Bharat Express if we make it run at 400 km/h in its current design? This topic is very vast and requires a lot of research. But if we design and analyze any one part of the Vande-Bharat train, we can open the doors to many researches in this direction. In this research, we have designed a wheel of Vande-Bharat train and done its CAE analysis, the details of which are given in this research paper.
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