Dr. Bernhard SünderDr. Bernhard Sünder

AMS GmbH, FlöhaAMS GmbH, Flöha

4. October 20024. October 2002www.AMSonline.dewww.AMSonline.de

UIC-518UIC-518

Testing and EvaluationTesting and Evaluationaccording to UIC-518according to UIC-518Project RoLa, Austria 2002Project RoLa, Austria 2002

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PrefacePreface

This document describes the tests and evaluations made in Austria in summer 2002 on freight wagons of Greenbrier Europe.

Test and evaluation were made to achieve an official license. The intend of this document is not to give constructive details of

freight wagons. No real results are presented which are from, or representative for the wagons under test.

The data acquisition as well as the evaluation is described from the view of a test and evaluation engineer.

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Project PartnerProject Partner

Leadership: HBM Ges.m.b.H. AustriaDipl.Ing. W. Weilinger

Customer: Greenbrier EuropeGreenbrier USA

Expert: Dipl.Ing. J. Stephanidis

Measurements: TU GrazDipl.Ing. M. Joch

Software: AMS GmbH, Floeha Dr.-Ing. B. Sünder

Greenbrier

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UIC UIC – International Union of Railways– International Union of Railways

“UIC is the worldwide organization for railway cooperation. It is active in all the fields involved in developing rail transport.”

UIC publishes leaflets, the UIC Codes UIC Code 518:

– Testing and approval of railway vehicles from the point of view of their dynamic behavior - Safety - Track fatigue - Ride quality

UIC on the web: www.uic.asso.fr

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OverviewOverview

1. Data Acquisition– 64 dynamic channels:

• 8 Spider8 (HBM)

– GPS:• Garmin

– Software• BEAM (AMS)

2. Evaluation– Software

• jBEAM (AMS)

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Data Acquisition (I)Data Acquisition (I)

64 synchronous analog channelsGPS (Garmin)1200 values per channel per second76,800 values per second in totalUp to 1 hour per runData Files up to 1 Giga Byte

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Data Acquisition (II)Data Acquisition (II)

Datatransfer Spider – PC:Centronics EPP-Mode

Realtime Dataprocessing by BEAM:– Reading the data from interface– Conversion binary values ⇒ eng. units– Realtime display of groups of 18 channels

in an oscilograph type chart

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Data EvaluationData Evaluation

Using the software jBEAM from AMS Platform independent, Java-based

1. Generating a section list of the route2. Detecting the offsets for different runs3. Analyzing data of the runs for each route

All runs of one route are analyzed All runs of one route are analyzed automatically with one mouse click!automatically with one mouse click!

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Generating the Section-List (a)Generating the Section-List (a)

Manually defining curves with 2 cursors

Auto calculating the radius of curves

On click appending curve start, end and radius to the curve-list

Data EvaluationData Evaluation

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Generating the Section-List (b)Generating the Section-List (b)

Specials: Extracting only GPS data

from 1GB data file xy-chart with a map as a

scaled background image and GPS positions on top.

Correct distance calculation by converting GPS to metric UTM coordinates.

Data EvaluationData Evaluation

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Generating the Section-List (c)Generating the Section-List (c)Data EvaluationData Evaluation

Auto generation of UIC-conform section list from curve list.

Auto generation of section list for reverse direction.

Export of section list for manual changes.

Comparison with official route data. Adding additional information.

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Offset Detection for each Data fileOffset Detection for each Data fileData EvaluationData Evaluation

GPS-data of two runs are loaded and displayed on top of map.

Detecting the 1st run offset according to the section list.

Load GPS data for each run and run’s offsets are calculated automatically.

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Analyzing Data for Route (I)Analyzing Data for Route (I)

Finish preparation by setting all parameters

Include all files for this route and direction

Enter/load list of sensor distances to GPS for auto correction

Data EvaluationData Evaluation

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Analyzing Data for Route (II)

Parameter dialog for running UIC-analysis as an auto sequence

Data EvaluationData Evaluation

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Analyzing Data for Route (III)

For each sensor define the type of Analysis

List of calculations is defined by UIC-518.

More than one calculation may be defined for sensors.

Data EvaluationData Evaluation

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Analyzing Data for Route (IV)

Click on start buttonClick on start button View the processView the process

– Detecting sectionDetecting section– Determine location of data in fileDetermine location of data in file– Loading dataLoading data– Auto AnalyzeAuto Analyze– See section position with markers See section position with markers

on mapon map

Data EvaluationData Evaluation

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Analyzing Data for Route (V)

Final Step: With one mouse

click generate one page of protocol per defined calculation.

40 pages are created in less than a second!

Data EvaluationData Evaluation

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InternationalizationInternationalization

The UIC-518 Analysis is implemented in the jBEAM The UIC-518 Analysis is implemented in the jBEAM software multilingual:software multilingual:At present German and English is available.At present German and English is available.

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ConclusionConclusion

With the described equipment the measurement and analysis tasks were solved in a tremendous short time.

Specially the new developed UIC-components in the standard evaluation software jBEAM made available a fast and easy way of UIC-518 conform analysis.

It was a pleasure for all persons involved in this project to work with the described equipment!