Simulation of Anti-Climbing Mechanism for High-Speed Railways

When a high speed train meets an accident, it has a higher chance of causalities of the passengers and crew members. Every year new high sped trains are introduced, and the speed of trains are increasing day by day. When an accident occur coaches have huge amount of energy in form of kinetic energy, so the coaches climb and crush into one another. Which cause many more deaths. Many research work have been done on the crashworthiness of the train to solve this issue. This thesis work presents the model of an actual internal frame and the bumpers and anti-climbers. Internal frame were redesigned to absorb huge kinetic energy and anti- climbers are designed to stop the jumping. The results of the newly designed part is compared with the actual model of parts, which are currently used in Indian Railways, to compare the effectiveness of the new parts. All parts and assemblies are modeled in Solidworks. For simulation of energy absorption the assemblies were imported to Ansys and for simulation of anti-climbers assemblies were imported to Adams View.