THE EFFICIENCY OF THE NOISE REDUCTION LEVELS OF THE LOCOMOTIVES AND DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES

Abstract

The creation of the high capacity transport vehicles where vibro active parts are increasingly used that inevitably leads to an increase in vibration and noise levels and it adversely affects the locomotive crews as well as pollute acoustically while operating in a residential area. This problem is most relevant for rolling stock. The recommendations of the European Union are aimed at reducing the noise of the railway transport directly in its places of origin as rolling stock and track structures. It should be noted that the noise decline should not be limited to measures of the indirect protection: the construction of the noise protection walls and the use of the noise protection windows in buildings located close to the railway track. First of all, in the opinion of the European Union, it is necessary to implement measures to suppress noise in the sources themselves. For solving the problem, the research has been carried out by different experts from foreign countries. However, the process of the formation vibro acoustic characteristics is not well understood. The diesel locomotives and locomotives are intensively exploited. It should be considered that one of the main sources of the air and structural noise component is an internal combustion engine for these machines, the noise and vibration levels which are practically impossible to reduce in the industrial conditions. Therefore, on the basis of the theoretical and experimental studies, the practical recommendations have been developed for achieving sanitary noise standards by ensuring the required sound absorption and sound insulation values.