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- the present invention relates to an energy absorbing structure of railway vehicles such as railway cars and monorail cars.
- a railway vehicle may collide unexpectedly with objects during normal operation.
- Possible objects that the vehicle may unexpectedly collide with include large objects such as road vehicles, trees and railway cars, and small objects such as rocks, snowballs and parts from oncoming vehicles.
- the speed during collision may range from high speed to low speed.
- the above concept provides in the structure of the railway vehicle a space where the crew and passengers exist and which is aimed at preventing the structure of the railway vehicle from crushing during collision with an object (hereinafter called a survival zone), and a space aimed at absorbing the energy of collision by allowing the structure of the railway vehicle to be easily deformed during collision with an object (hereinafter called a crushable zone), which are provided in a separate manner.
- a survival zone a space where the crew and passengers exist and which is aimed at preventing the structure of the railway vehicle from crushing during collision with an object
- a crushable zone a space aimed at absorbing the energy of collision by allowing the structure of the railway vehicle to be easily deformed during collision with an object
- the railway vehicle collides with a large object at low speed. If the railway car collides with a large object at low speed, the impact acting on the car body is very small compared to when the railway car collides at high speed. Therefore, unlike the collision occurring at high speed, the safety of the crew and passengers can be ensured without having to intendedly absorb the energy acting on the car body during collision. On the contrary, it is preferable for the car body not to have a too rigid structure so that it will be deformed by the load acting on the car body during high speed collision.
- Non-patent document 1 discloses an example of a structure in which an incoming object protector panel is disposed at a front end in the longitudinal direction or the direction of the rail of a car body, and having an energy absorbing member arranged adjacent to the protector panel.
- Patent document 1 Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Publication No. 2004-168218 (patent document 1) teaches that an energy absorbing structure having hollow extruded shape members made of aluminum alloy disposed on four sides is capable of absorbing energy efficiently.
- Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Publication No. 2002-67952, No. 2001-88698 and No. 2001-26268 teach the art of absorbing energy by forming holes on the face plate of the energy absorbing member.
- a railway vehicle having at an end of an intermediate car or at an end of a car connected to the intermediate car of a railway car formation the following: two strength members disposed along the perpendicular direction of side walls of a crew cabin and along a roof at the end of the car, one of the strength members disposed at the leading end of the car body in the longitudinal direction thereof and the other member disposed rearward than the first member in the longitudinal direction of the car body; wherein the end of the car body is composed of the front and rear strength members of the car body, rib members welded to the strength members, and an outer panel covering the rib members and the two strength members; the longitudinal direction of the rib member is disposed along the longitudinal direction of the car body; the rib member is composed of two flanges and a web connecting the two flanges; the side of the rib member having the web is welded via fillet welding to the outer panel; the flanges are each provided with a notch that opens to the edge of the flanges at the middle
- the load when a collision load is applied on the front end of a vehicle, the load is applied via a strength member to rib members.
- the rib members are buckled at the notched portions.
- the buckled rib members will not be bent toward the outer panel, so that the collision energy can be absorbed without having the outer panel interfere with the buckling.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the railway vehicle
- FIG. 2 is a side view showing an end portion of the car body of FIG. 1 ;
- FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a rib member according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a view taken from arrow IV of FIG. 3 ;
- FIG. 5 shows a deformed view of the rib member of FIGS. 3 and 4 ;
- FIG. 6 is a plan view showing a hole 21 b according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 is a plan view showing the rib member utilizing the hole of FIG. 6 ;
- FIG. 8 is a view taken from arrow IX of FIG. 7 ;
- FIG. 9A and 9B are side views showing a deformation example when load is applied on the car body
- FIG. 10A and 10B are side views showing an end portion of the car body to which the present invention is applied;
- FIG. 11 is a perspective view of the rib member according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 12 is a perspective view of the rib member according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 13 is a perspective view of the rib member according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 14 is a perspective view of the rib member according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 15 is a perspective view of the rib member according to yet another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 1 through 6 A first embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a railway vehicle is described with reference to FIGS. 1 through 6 .
- a car body structure 1 of a railway vehicle is composed of a roof structure 2 constituting the roof thereof, end structures 3 constituting the sides closing the longitudinal ends of the car body, side structures 4 constituting the left and right side walls with respect to the longitudinal direction of the car body, and an underframe strength member 5 constituting the floor of the car body.
- the side structure 4 has windows W and openings for exists.
- the car body structure 1 is composed of a survival zone 10 for protecting the lives of passengers and crews during collision, and a crushable zone 11 for absorbing the energy generated during collision.
- the survival zone 10 is disposed at the longitudinal center of the vehicle.
- the crushable zones 11 are formed at both longitudinal ends of the vehicle, arranged so as to sandwich the survival zone.
- the car body structure is explained using as an example a middle car that does not have a driving device, but also in a car having a driving device, the relative arrangements of the crushable zones 11 and the survival zone 10 are the same.
- FIG. 2 shows a side view of the crushable zone 11 .
- This crushable zone 11 is disposed at the rear end of a leading car, and at longitudinal ends of a middle car of a railway car formation (or at connecting portions facing front and rear cars).
- the main components constituting the crushable zone 11 include front and rear strength members 15 and 16 constituting the crew cabin of the crushable zone 11 (so-called a corner strut, a post or the like), rib members 17 connecting the front and rear strength members 15 and 16 , and an outer panel 18 covering the outer side of the strength members 15 , 16 and rib members 17 .
- the rib members 17 are disposed along the longitudinal direction of the car body. They are not slanted.
- the strength members 15 and 16 are disposed along the perpendicular direction on the sides of the car body, and also disposed along the roof.
- the rib member 17 has a U-shaped cross-section, and an outer panel 18 is attached via fillet welding to the web 17 b of the U-shaped cross-section.
- the fillet welding can be performed either continuously or discontinuously.
- Flanges 17 c and 17 d are disposed on both sides of the web 17 b .
- Notches 21 are provided on flanges 17 c and 17 d at the longitudinal center area of the rib member 17 . The notches 21 are formed to open on the ends of the flanges 17 c and 17 d.
- holes 22 , 22 are formed near the longitudinal ends of the web 17 b (on the surface facing the outer panel).
- the rib members 17 When a load greater than a certain level (hereinafter referred to as excessive load) is applied, the rib members 17 start to deform from the portion having the notches 21 provided at the longitudinal center thereof. As illustrated in FIG. 5 , the deformation is progressed so that the side having the notches 21 is valley-folded. Since the outer panel 18 is disposed on the opposite side from the valley-folded side, the outer panel will not interfere with the valley-fold even if the notches 21 are folded, so that the deformation results in absorbing the energy.
- excessive load a load greater than a certain level
- the whole rib member 17 deforms so that the web 17 b is gabled, as shown in FIG. 5 . Therefore, the outer panel 18 deforms in a protruded shape with respect to the outer side of the car. If such deformation does not occur and local buckling occurs continuously, according to which the deformation direction cannot be controlled, a large uncrushed area may remain, and it will not be possible to ensure an effective crush. Even further, if the car deforms toward the inner side of the car body, it may affect the crew and passengers. Therefore, it is very effective to control the deformation so that the deformed portion projects toward the outer side of the car body.
- the web 17 b of the rib member 17 having a U-shaped cross-section is welded to the outer panel 18 , but as illustrated in FIGS. 6 , 7 and 8 , it is also possible to weld the outer panel 18 onto the ends of the flanges 17 c and 17 d . This way, the welding can be performed easily.
- a long hole 21 b corresponding to the notch 21 provided at the longitudinal center area of the rib member 17 is formed at the connecting portion between the web 17 b and the flange 17 c ( 17 d ). This is because the connecting portion has intense strength.
- the rib member 17 is formed by bending the member at the width-direction center of the long hole 21 b , so as to create the web 17 b and the flange 17 c or the flange 17 d .
- the width of the long hole 21 b is approximately 40 mm.
- FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate the rib member 17 formed by the above method.
- the holes 21 b correspond to the notches 21 of FIG. 3 .
- the notches 22 b and 23 b correspond to the holes 22 and 23 of FIG. 3 .
- the notches 22 b and 23 b are formed to open from the end of flanges 17 c and 17 d.
- FIG. 9 illustrates a prior art example that corresponds to the present invention (illustrated in FIG. 10 ).
- the rib member 17 disposed at the corresponding height mainly supports the load. In that case, if bending deformation does not occur to the rib member 17 or the strength member 16 , the stress occurring to the rib member 17 or the strength member 16 will be small.
- a bending momentum occurs in proportion to the distance between the rib members 17 c and 17 d and the point of load. That is, when the distance between the rib members 17 c and 17 d and the point of load becomes longer, the bending momentum is increased. Therefore, the rib members 17 c and 17 d and the strength member 15 are subjected to bending deformation, and the stress occurring to the rib members 17 c and 17 d and the strength member 15 is increased.
- the generated stress becomes necessarily high.
- the distance between the rib members 17 c and 17 d is too small, the load occurring when the rib members 17 start to deform becomes too high.
- the second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 10 .
- the rib member 117 is expanded in a Y-shape at the connection between the rib member 117 and the strength member 15 .
- the end of the rib member 117 connected to the strength member 16 is not expanded.
- the number of points where the rib members 117 are supported by the strength member 15 is increased.
- the distance from the point of load to the supporting point of the rib member 117 is short. Accordingly, the generated momentum is reduced compared to the prior art example.
- the weakest point of strength of the rib member 117 will be the connection between the area expanded into a Y-shape and the unbranched area. Since the number of rib members 117 and the cross-section of the weakest point of strength are the same as those of the prior art, the load occurring during buckling will be the same as that of the prior art.
- FIG. 11 is an enlarged view of the rib member 117 having the leading end of the rib members 117 of FIG. 10 expanded into a Y-shape.
- a web 117 g is formed between the flanges 117 c , 117 d and the expanded flanges 117 e and 117 f .
- the outer panel 18 can be disposed either on the side of the web 117 b or on the side of the flanges 117 c , 117 d , 117 e and 117 f.
- FIG. 12 illustrates an example in which flanges 117 c and 117 d and a web 117 b of a rib member 117 having a U-shaped cross-section are arranged between expanded flanges 117 e and 117 f .
- the webs 117 b and 117 g between the expanded flanges 117 e and 117 f can be overlapped.
- the outer panel 18 can be disposed either on the side of the web 117 b or the side of the flanges 117 c , 117 d , 117 e and 117 f.
- the rib member 20 is formed by branching the side of the rib member 117 of FIG. 3 attached to the strength member 15 into a Y-shape.
- Holes 24 and 24 corresponding to the notches 21 are provided on the flanges at an area closer to the strength member 16 than a connecting portion 117 i and 117 j of the flanges 117 e and 117 f and flanges 117 g and 117 f branched into a Y-shape.
- the holes 24 are vertically long.
- the flanges 117 e , 117 f , 117 g and 117 h branched into a Y-shape are disposed on both sides of webs 117 k and 117 m.
- the outer panel 18 can be disposed on either side, as described in the embodiment of FIGS. 11 and 12 .
- notches 24 b and 24 b are formed on flanges 117 c and 117 d where holes 24 had been formed in the former example. According to this arrangement, the portion having the notches 24 b and 24 b become the weakest point of strength.
- a hole 26 is formed on the web 117 b and holes 25 are formed on webs 117 k and 117 m close to the connection with strength members 15 and 16 .
- the outer panel 18 is disposed on the side having the web 117 b.
- deformation progresses from the portion of notches 24 b and 24 b when excessive load is applied.
- the deformation progresses so that the side having the notches is valley-folded.
- the rib member 117 is deformed so that the side having the notches 24 b and 24 b are valley-folded and the side having the holes 25 and 26 are gabled.
- the notches 24 b and 24 b are similar to the aforementioned embodiment.
- notches 25 b and 25 b corresponding to the holes 25 are formed on flanges 117 e , 117 f , 117 g and 117 h .
- Notches 26 b corresponding to the hole 26 is formed on flanges 117 c and 117 d .
- notches 25 b and 26 b on the web 117 b and flanges 117 c , 117 d , 117 e , 117 f , 117 g and 117 h similarly as the holes provided on the flanges 17 c , 17 d and the web 17 b of the example illustrated in FIGS. 6 , 7 and 8 .
- the outer panel 18 is provided on the side having the web 117 b.
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Abstract
The invention provides a car body of a railway vehicle capable of absorbing the energy caused when collision occurs to the end of the car body. The present invention comprises a strength member 15 disposed along the circumferential direction of the car body on the end of the car body, a strength member 16 disposed along the circumferential direction at a position rearward from the member 15, rib members 17 disposed along the longitudinal direction of the car body and connecting the two strength members, and an outer panel 18 covering the same. The longitudinal direction of the rib member 17 corresponds to the longitudinal direction of the car body. The rib member 17 is composed of two flanges 17 c, 17 d and a web 17 b connecting the two flanges, and the side having the web 17 b is welded to the outer panel 18 via fillet welding. A notch 21 opened to the edge of the flange is formed on the flange at the center of the longitudinal direction of the rib member 17. When collision load is applied, the notch 21 is valley-folded, by which the rib member is bent toward the direction opposite from the side to which the outer panel 18 is attached, so that the collision load can be absorbed sufficiently since the outer panel 18 will not interfere with the buckling of the rib member 17.
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- The present application is based on and claims priority of Japanese patent application No. 2006-243544 filed on Sep. 8, 2006, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
- 1. Field of the invention
- The present invention relates to an energy absorbing structure of railway vehicles such as railway cars and monorail cars.
- 2. Description of the related art
- A railway vehicle may collide unexpectedly with objects during normal operation. Possible objects that the vehicle may unexpectedly collide with include large objects such as road vehicles, trees and railway cars, and small objects such as rocks, snowballs and parts from oncoming vehicles. Further, the speed during collision may range from high speed to low speed.
- We will now consider a case in which the railway vehicle collides with a large object at high speed. When the railway vehicle collides with a large object at high speed, a large load is applied on the railway car with a large impact. In order to protect the crew and passengers on board the transport machine from such impact, it is necessary to absorb the energy of collision by allowing a portion of the structure of the transport machine to be easily deformed.
- The above concept provides in the structure of the railway vehicle a space where the crew and passengers exist and which is aimed at preventing the structure of the railway vehicle from crushing during collision with an object (hereinafter called a survival zone), and a space aimed at absorbing the energy of collision by allowing the structure of the railway vehicle to be easily deformed during collision with an object (hereinafter called a crushable zone), which are provided in a separate manner.
- On the other hand, we will consider a case in which the railway vehicle collides with a large object at low speed. If the railway car collides with a large object at low speed, the impact acting on the car body is very small compared to when the railway car collides at high speed. Therefore, unlike the collision occurring at high speed, the safety of the crew and passengers can be ensured without having to intendedly absorb the energy acting on the car body during collision. On the contrary, it is preferable for the car body not to have a too rigid structure so that it will be deformed by the load acting on the car body during high speed collision.
- Furthermore, when beam members are subjected to deformation, it is preferable for the direction of deformation or the starting point of deformation to be controlled.
- Amar Ainoussa; A crashworthy high speed aluminum train: the west coast main line class 390 tilting train, Proc. Imech EConf., “What can we realistically expect from crashworthiness?”, (2001) (non-patent document 1) discloses an example of a structure in which an incoming object protector panel is disposed at a front end in the longitudinal direction or the direction of the rail of a car body, and having an energy absorbing member arranged adjacent to the protector panel.
- Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Publication No. 2004-168218 (patent document 1) teaches that an energy absorbing structure having hollow extruded shape members made of aluminum alloy disposed on four sides is capable of absorbing energy efficiently.
- Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Publication No. 2002-67952, No. 2001-88698 and No. 2001-26268 (
patent documents 2, 3 and 4) teach the art of absorbing energy by forming holes on the face plate of the energy absorbing member. - As described, it is desirable to provide a structure capable of absorbing the energy by allowing to be easily deformed when a load greater than a certain level is applied, while not deforming when a load smaller than a certain level is applied.
- The above object can be achieved by a railway vehicle having at an end of an intermediate car or at an end of a car connected to the intermediate car of a railway car formation the following: two strength members disposed along the perpendicular direction of side walls of a crew cabin and along a roof at the end of the car, one of the strength members disposed at the leading end of the car body in the longitudinal direction thereof and the other member disposed rearward than the first member in the longitudinal direction of the car body; wherein the end of the car body is composed of the front and rear strength members of the car body, rib members welded to the strength members, and an outer panel covering the rib members and the two strength members; the longitudinal direction of the rib member is disposed along the longitudinal direction of the car body; the rib member is composed of two flanges and a web connecting the two flanges; the side of the rib member having the web is welded via fillet welding to the outer panel; the flanges are each provided with a notch that opens to the edge of the flanges at the middle in the longitudinal direction of the rib member; and the web has a hole formed between the notches and the longitudinal end of the rib member.
- According to the arrangement described above, when a collision load is applied on the front end of a vehicle, the load is applied via a strength member to rib members. The rib members are buckled at the notched portions. The buckled rib members will not be bent toward the outer panel, so that the collision energy can be absorbed without having the outer panel interfere with the buckling.
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FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the railway vehicle; -
FIG. 2 is a side view showing an end portion of the car body ofFIG. 1 ; -
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a rib member according to one embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 4 is a view taken from arrow IV ofFIG. 3 ; -
FIG. 5 shows a deformed view of the rib member ofFIGS. 3 and 4 ; -
FIG. 6 is a plan view showing ahole 21 b according to another embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 7 is a plan view showing the rib member utilizing the hole ofFIG. 6 ; -
FIG. 8 is a view taken from arrow IX ofFIG. 7 ; -
FIG. 9A and 9B are side views showing a deformation example when load is applied on the car body; -
FIG. 10A and 10B are side views showing an end portion of the car body to which the present invention is applied; -
FIG. 11 is a perspective view of the rib member according to another embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 12 is a perspective view of the rib member according to another embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 13 is a perspective view of the rib member according to another embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 14 is a perspective view of the rib member according to another embodiment of the present invention; and -
FIG. 15 is a perspective view of the rib member according to yet another embodiment of the present invention. - Now, the preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
- A first embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a railway vehicle is described with reference to
FIGS. 1 through 6 . - First, the structure of a railway vehicle is described with reference to
FIG. 1 . According toFIG. 1 , acar body structure 1 of a railway vehicle is composed of a roof structure 2 constituting the roof thereof,end structures 3 constituting the sides closing the longitudinal ends of the car body,side structures 4 constituting the left and right side walls with respect to the longitudinal direction of the car body, and anunderframe strength member 5 constituting the floor of the car body. Theside structure 4 has windows W and openings for exists. - The
car body structure 1 is composed of asurvival zone 10 for protecting the lives of passengers and crews during collision, and acrushable zone 11 for absorbing the energy generated during collision. Thesurvival zone 10 is disposed at the longitudinal center of the vehicle. - The
crushable zones 11 are formed at both longitudinal ends of the vehicle, arranged so as to sandwich the survival zone. - In the present drawing, the car body structure is explained using as an example a middle car that does not have a driving device, but also in a car having a driving device, the relative arrangements of the
crushable zones 11 and thesurvival zone 10 are the same. -
FIG. 2 shows a side view of thecrushable zone 11. Thiscrushable zone 11 is disposed at the rear end of a leading car, and at longitudinal ends of a middle car of a railway car formation (or at connecting portions facing front and rear cars). - The main components constituting the
crushable zone 11 include front andrear strength members rib members 17 connecting the front andrear strength members outer panel 18 covering the outer side of thestrength members rib members 17. - The
rib members 17 are disposed along the longitudinal direction of the car body. They are not slanted. Thestrength members - In
FIGS. 3 , 4 and 5, therib member 17 has a U-shaped cross-section, and anouter panel 18 is attached via fillet welding to theweb 17 b of the U-shaped cross-section. The fillet welding can be performed either continuously or discontinuously.Flanges web 17 b.Notches 21 are provided onflanges rib member 17. Thenotches 21 are formed to open on the ends of theflanges - Further, holes 22, 22 are formed near the longitudinal ends of the
web 17 b (on the surface facing the outer panel). - According to such configuration, when a load greater than a certain level (impact load) is applied on the
strength member 15 along the longitudinal direction of the car, thestrength member 15 and theouter panel 18 on the outer side thereof are deformed to absorb the energy, but on the other hand, when a load smaller than the certain level is applied, they are not deformed. - When a load greater than a certain level (hereinafter referred to as excessive load) is applied, the
rib members 17 start to deform from the portion having thenotches 21 provided at the longitudinal center thereof. As illustrated inFIG. 5 , the deformation is progressed so that the side having thenotches 21 is valley-folded. Since theouter panel 18 is disposed on the opposite side from the valley-folded side, the outer panel will not interfere with the valley-fold even if thenotches 21 are folded, so that the deformation results in absorbing the energy. - Since
openings web 17 b near the longitudinal ends of theU-shaped rib member 17, thewhole rib member 17 deforms so that theweb 17 b is gabled, as shown inFIG. 5 . Therefore, theouter panel 18 deforms in a protruded shape with respect to the outer side of the car. If such deformation does not occur and local buckling occurs continuously, according to which the deformation direction cannot be controlled, a large uncrushed area may remain, and it will not be possible to ensure an effective crush. Even further, if the car deforms toward the inner side of the car body, it may affect the crew and passengers. Therefore, it is very effective to control the deformation so that the deformed portion projects toward the outer side of the car body. - According to the first embodiment, the
web 17 b of therib member 17 having a U-shaped cross-section is welded to theouter panel 18, but as illustrated inFIGS. 6 , 7 and 8, it is also possible to weld theouter panel 18 onto the ends of theflanges - In this case, a
long hole 21 b corresponding to thenotch 21 provided at the longitudinal center area of therib member 17 is formed at the connecting portion between theweb 17 b and theflange 17 c (17 d). This is because the connecting portion has intense strength. - In
FIG. 6 , therib member 17 is formed by bending the member at the width-direction center of thelong hole 21 b, so as to create theweb 17 b and theflange 17 c or theflange 17 d. For example, the width of thelong hole 21 b is approximately 40 mm. -
FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate therib member 17 formed by the above method. Theholes 21 b correspond to thenotches 21 ofFIG. 3 . The notches 22 b and 23 b correspond to theholes FIG. 3 . The notches 22 b and 23 b are formed to open from the end offlanges -
FIG. 9 illustrates a prior art example that corresponds to the present invention (illustrated inFIG. 10 ). As shown inFIG. 9A , when load is applied to thestrength member 15, therib member 17 disposed at the corresponding height mainly supports the load. In that case, if bending deformation does not occur to therib member 17 or thestrength member 16, the stress occurring to therib member 17 or thestrength member 16 will be small. - On the other hand, as illustrated in
FIG. 9B , if load is applied on the area of thestrength member 15 where there is no rib member 17 (17 c or 17 d) arranged, (that is, when the load is applied to the intermediate position between therib members rib members - In that case, a bending momentum occurs in proportion to the distance between the
rib members rib members rib members strength member 15 are subjected to bending deformation, and the stress occurring to therib members strength member 15 is increased. - At this time, if the
rib members 17 are sparsely disposed, the generated stress becomes necessarily high. On the other hand, if the distance between therib members rib members 17 start to deform becomes too high. - Therefore, when a high load is applied, the momentum acting on the
strength member 15 and therib members 17 become excessive, and high stress occurs to the members. - The second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to
FIG. 10 . Therib member 117 is expanded in a Y-shape at the connection between therib member 117 and thestrength member 15. The end of therib member 117 connected to thestrength member 16 is not expanded. - Therefore, the number of points where the
rib members 117 are supported by thestrength member 15 is increased. Thus, when load is applied to the height where there is norib member 117 disposed, the distance from the point of load to the supporting point of therib member 117 is short. Accordingly, the generated momentum is reduced compared to the prior art example. - In other words, as shown in
FIG. 10B , when load is applied to a height where there are norib members rib members rib members strength member 15 is not longer than the interval at which therib members 117 are arranged. Therefore, the bending deformation occurring to thestrength member 15 andrib members 117 is small, and thus the stress occurring to therib members 117 and thestrength member 15 is small. - If the applied load is so large that it becomes necessary to absorb the energy caused thereby, the weakest point of strength of the
rib member 117 will be the connection between the area expanded into a Y-shape and the unbranched area. Since the number ofrib members 117 and the cross-section of the weakest point of strength are the same as those of the prior art, the load occurring during buckling will be the same as that of the prior art. -
FIG. 11 is an enlarged view of therib member 117 having the leading end of therib members 117 ofFIG. 10 expanded into a Y-shape. Aweb 117 g is formed between theflanges flanges outer panel 18 can be disposed either on the side of theweb 117 b or on the side of theflanges -
FIG. 12 illustrates an example in whichflanges web 117 b of arib member 117 having a U-shaped cross-section are arranged between expandedflanges webs flanges outer panel 18 can be disposed either on the side of theweb 117 b or the side of theflanges - In
FIG. 13 , the rib member 20 is formed by branching the side of therib member 117 ofFIG. 3 attached to thestrength member 15 into a Y-shape.Holes notches 21 are provided on the flanges at an area closer to thestrength member 16 than a connectingportion flanges flanges holes holes 24 are vertically long. - The
flanges webs - The
outer panel 18 can be disposed on either side, as described in the embodiment ofFIGS. 11 and 12 . - According to this arrangement, when excessive load is applied, the deformation progresses from the
holes - In
FIG. 14 ,notches flanges notches hole 26 is formed on theweb 117 b and holes 25 are formed onwebs strength members - The
outer panel 18 is disposed on the side having theweb 117 b. - According to this arrangement, deformation progresses from the portion of
notches rib member 117 as a whole, therib member 117 is deformed so that the side having thenotches holes - In
FIG. 15 , thenotches notches holes 25 are formed onflanges Notches 26 b corresponding to thehole 26 is formed onflanges notches web 117 b andflanges flanges web 17 b of the example illustrated inFIGS. 6 , 7 and 8. - The
outer panel 18 is provided on the side having theweb 117 b.
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1. A railway vehicle having at an end of an intermediate car or at an end of a car connected to the intermediate car of a railway car formation the following:
two strength members disposed along the perpendicular direction of side walls of a crew cabin and along a roof at the end of the car, one of the strength members disposed at the leading end of the car body in the longitudinal direction thereof and the other member disposed rearward than the first member in the longitudinal direction of the car body; wherein
the end of the car body is composed of the front and rear strength members of the car body, rib members welded to the strength members, and an outer panel covering the rib members and the two strength members;
the longitudinal direction of the rib member is disposed along the longitudinal direction of the car body;
the rib member is composed of two flanges and a web connecting the two flanges;
the web of the rib member is welded via fillet welding to the outer panel;
the flanges are each provided with a notch that opens to the edge of the flanges at the middle in the longitudinal direction of the rib member; and
the web has a hole formed between the notches and the longitudinal end of the rib member.
2. A railway vehicle having at an end of an intermediate car or at an end of a car connected to the intermediate car of a railway car formation the following:
two strength members disposed along the perpendicular direction of side walls of a crew cabin and along a roof at the end of the car, one of the strength members disposed at the leading end of the car body in the longitudinal direction thereof and the other member disposed rearward than the first member in the longitudinal direction of the car body; wherein
the end of the car body is composed of the front and rear strength members of the car body, rib members welded to the strength members, and an outer panel covering the rib members and the two strength members;
the longitudinal direction of the rib member is disposed along the longitudinal direction of the car body;
the rib member is composed of two flanges and a web connecting the two flanges;
the ends of the flanges are welded via fillet welding to the outer panel;
the flanges and the web are provided with a notch formed so that the center of the notch corresponds to a bent portion between the web and the flange; and
the web has a hole formed between the notches and the longitudinal end of the rib member.
3. A railway vehicle having at an end of an intermediate car or at an end of a car connected to the intermediate car of a railway car formation the following:
two strength members disposed along the perpendicular direction of side walls of a crew cabin and along a roof at the end of the car, one of the strength members disposed at the leading end of the car body in the longitudinal direction thereof and the other member disposed rearward than the first member in the longitudinal direction of the car body; wherein
the end of the car body is composed of the front and rear strength members of the car body, a plurality of rib members welded to the strength members, and an outer panel covering the rib member and the two strength members;
the longitudinal direction of the rib member is disposed along the longitudinal direction of the car body;
the rib member is composed of two flanges and a web connecting the two flanges; and
one end of the rib member in the longitudinal direction of the car body is branched into a Y-shape, whereas the other end thereof is not branched.
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