Investigation of possibility of hopper cars unloading on the car dumper VRS–134M

Abstract

It was developed a computational model to evaluate the body strength of short base hopper models 19-758-01, 20-471, and 20-4015 when unloading them on the car dumper VRS–134M. Modeling of the stress-strain state of the car design was made using the finite element method. It was established that in terms of strength, bodies of the hopper models 19-758-01, 20-471, and 20-4015 are suitable for unloading on car dumper. The results of experimental studies showed sufficiently high accuracy of the chosen computational model for estimating the stress-strain state of design and confirmed the possibility of hopper car unloading on the car dumper VRS–134M.