Higher-order wheel polygon can have bad effects on vehicle dynamic performance, increase wheel-rail force, cause severe vibration of a vehicle-track system, cause fatigue damage to rail and wheel tread, produce fatigue cracks and uneven wear, and form a large noise pollution.Here, the rigid-flexible coupled dynamic model of a vehicle-rail system was constructed based on the rigid-flexible coupled system dynamics theory considering flexibility of track, wheel pair (including brake disc), bearing and axle box as well as rigid frame and car body.Effects of train speed, wheel polygon order and wave depth on vibration characteristics of wheel pairs, brake discs and axle boxeswere analyzed, and vibration transfer relations between axle and brake disc were studied.In addition, by adding emergency braking conditions, influences of braking conditions on lateral vibration of brake disc were analyzed, and vibration characteristics of brake discs at different positions were compared.Finally, the reliability of the proposed model was verified with tests.
9 kinds of track structures were tested at the original position of the 20th track in a depot of Beijing Metro.The vibration reduction effect of 8 kinds of track structures and the denoising effect of secondary structure noise indepot’s superstructure were analyzed contrastively.According to the test data of structural vibration and structural noise, the relationship between structural vibration and secondary structure noise was analyzed, and the prediction formulafor secondary structure noise based on structural vibration was verified.The research indicated that structural vibration and secondary structure noise caused by train passingin superstructure of subway depot have high consistency in frequency domain; secondary structure noise can be predicted according to vibration speed of floor; due to differences of weight calculation methods and frequency calculation ones, there are differences in numerical expression of vibration reduction value and structural noise reduction one;in practical engineering, reasonable track vibration reduction measures should be selected according to the actual vibration and noise spectral characteristics.