Suspended monorail emergency braking trolley computational model verification based on bench tests

Abstract

This article presents a test bench for the conducting of emergency braking tests. The test bench can be found at the laboratory of the Central Mining Institute. The second part of the article describes a computational model of a braking trolley and of the aforementioned test bench, developed at the KOMAG Institute of Mining Technology. It then proceeds to compare the bench test results with the numerical calculation results obtained at KOMAG. The braking trolley computational model was developed for the purposes of project INESI, in order to conduct analyses of the influence of a suspended monorail’s speed increase on the track load during emergency braking.