Determining the Possibility of Using Removable Equipment for Transporting 20- and 40-Feet-Long Containers on an Universal Platform Wagon
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Date
2021
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Technology Center, Kharkov, Ukraine
Abstract
EN: An important role in the market of transport
services belongs to container transportation.
Railroads, especially under the conditions
of increased competition from road transport,
must respond quickly to the needs of the market
and the growing demand for container transportation,
including interstate traffic. Demand
for container transportation can vary significantly
during the year, which testifies to the
expediency of introducing removable equipment
on universal railroad freight cars that are
involved in the deliveries of containers. This
paper reports the design of a removable frame
structure for a universal platform that could
carry two 20-ft or one 40-ft container. The
proposed technical solution does not require
changes in the structure of the car and changes
in its model; with a decrease in the demand for
container transportation, it would allow this
car to be used for its main purpose.
According to the current methodology, the
efforts that operate on the frame during the
transportation of containers have been determined.
The strength of the proposed structure
was estimated by a finite-element method.
The maximum stresses arising in the proposed
structure are 164.4 MPa; they occur in the corners
of the stops attached to the stand-up staples
of the platform. The resulting stress values
do not exceed the allowable ones. The results of
calculating the removable equipment indicate
its sufficient strength. Requirements for placing
cargo on the rolling stock assume a mandatory
check to fit the dimensions, which confirmed
that the container hosted by the frame
does fit them. The proposed structure makes it
possible to abandon disposable fastening parts,
improve the safety of container transportation,
and increase competitiveness in the container
transportation market.
Description
O. Shykunov: ORCID 0000-0002-8256-2634, A. Reidemeister: ORCID 0000-0001-7490-7180, V. Shaposhnyk: ORCID 0000-0003-4701-6491, L. Muradian: ORCID 0000-0003-1781-4580
Keywords
universal platform, container transportation, removable equipment, strength, finite-element method, КВВГ
Citation
Shaposhnyk V. Yu., Shykunov O. A., Reidemeister A. G., Muradian L. A., Potapenko O. Determining the Possibility of Using Removable Equipment for Transporting 20- and 40-Feet-Long Containers on an Universal Platform Wagon. Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies. 2021. Vol. 1, Iss. 7 (109). P. 14–21. DOI: 10.15587/1729-4061.2021.225090.