Ebner, B., Plöchl, M., & Edelmann, J. (2025, June 23). Nonlinear stability analysis of a basic magnetic track brake model [Conference Presentation]. NODYCON 2025, Hoboken, United States of America (the). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/217224
Magnetic track brakes (MTB) are additional braking systems for railway vehicles and are utilised at emergency and low adhesion conditions. Operations at low velocities can cause harmful self-excited vibrations in the mechanical structure. While the onset of self-excited vibrations was studied by linear stability analysis in literature, nonlinear stability analysis and the post-critical behaviour of the coupled electromagnetic-mechanical system have not yet been addressed. In this work, continuation methods are applied to a minimal model of the MTB to study occurring bifurcations and the dynamic behaviour after the loss of stability. Super-critical Hopf bifurcations are identified, and a second co-existing branch of stable periodic orbits with stick-slip transitions is found.
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Project title:
Christian Doppler Labor für die Verbesserung des Bremsverhaltens von Schienenfahrzeugen: CDL (Christian Doppler Forschungsgesells)