Research and Development of Maglev and Application of Related
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PERSPECTIVE RResearchecent A andctiv Developmentities in Veh ofic Maglevle Tech andno lApplicationogy Resea ofrc Relatedh and DTechnologiesevelopme ntot Conventional Railways Makoto ISHIGE Ken NAGASHIMAVehicle Structure Technology DTakashiivision SASAKAWA Maglev Systems Technology Division Maglev Systems Technology Division (Former) RTRI is conducting R & D with the aim of improving railway safety, reducing main- tenanceThis papercosts, presents and improving recent findings rail servicesfrom RTRI by regarding introducing the development higher running of fundamental speeds. technologies Approxi- formately maglev half (magnetic of all R levitation) & D for and vehicles the application is concentrated of maglev on technology safety, mainly to the conventional focusing on railway research sys- tem.on running This paper safety also introducesevaluation the methods latest developments such as flange regarding climb the derailment future use of andmaglev, crashworthiness information re- portedevaluation. at WCRR2019, To improve and relatedthe quality news fromof railway and outside services Japan. for passengers, other research and de- velopment aims to improve ride comfort by reducing vibration, developing tilting technology Keyand words: noise reduction. maglev, conventional This paper railway, gives high-temperature an overview of superconducting current research magnet, and grounddevelopment coil, condition being conducted monitoring,in the Vehicle rail brakeStructure Technology Division, the status of crashworthiness evalu- ation, and of work to improve ride comfort. Keywords: vehicle, crashworthiness, ride comfort 1. Introduction two speakers from Japan to overview the current state of Japanese maglev-related work, a speaker from Germany also made a presen- 1. 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(WCRR) In a lecture entitled “Progress of the Superconducting Maglev The design standards for railway vehicle car body Chuo Shinkansen,” Dr. Kitano of JR CentralRunning gave updates regarding strucRTRIture s heldin J theapa 12thn w eWorldre for mCongressulated wonit hRailwayout cra sResearchhing in the technology, including on progress in the construction of the Running mWCRRind. 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Dr. spostero. On esession. of the The cra contentssh accid ofen theset typ eeventss wit hare h ibrieflygh priRunning odescribedrity for Werfel also talked about the advantagesRunning and development challeng- cbelow.onsid eration in the process iRigid wall s unexpected collisiocarriagens with es of replacing low-temperature superconductingcarriage magnets with automobiles at level crossings. high-temperature ones in maglev, high-temperature superconduct- 2.1.1W Organizedith this in session,mind, R“MaglevTRI ha sand bee Othern dev eFixedlopin gGuideway collision ing magnets using Bi2223 high-temperature superconducting wire analysTransport”es and studies on a crashworthiness evaluation in- developed by JR Central, and high-temperature superconducting dex to evaluate the safety of passengers in level crossing magnets using REBCO (rare-earth-based) high-temperature super- accidOneent sof. the authors of this paper chaired this session. We invited conducting wire, beingFig. developed 2 FEM simulationby RTRI. Finally, Dr. Werfel in- Fig.2 Fig.1 QQRR ooff RRTRI,TRI, VVol.ol. 662,2, NNo.o. 13,, Aug.Feb. 22021021 1631 163_CW6_A4258D12.indd 163 2021/07/16 15:39:01 troduced