Accurate and efficient vehicles, railway track, coupled vehicle-flexible track dynamics and wheel-rail contact are modelled using Multibody Dynamic techniques. Two in-house simulation codes are available:
SIMULON-RAIL:
▪ Long distance simulation of rail vehicles on tracks with arbitrary geometry.
▪ Simulation of track flexibility with Moving Modes Method.
▪ Stability analysis, curving behavior.
▪ Wheel-rail contact with Knife-Edge Equivalent profiles.
SIMPLE-RAIL:
▪ Simplified model with weakly coupled vertical and lateral dynamics.
▪ Designed for on-board observation of vehicle dynamics.
▪ Real-time capable.