Optimization of a Filament Wound Hybrid Metal Composite Railway Axle Design Concept

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Published: May 27, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14416/j.asep.2022.03.006
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Railway axles Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer Composites manufacturing Filament winding Roll wrapping Composite materials

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Guido Carra
Bercella S.R.L. 10 Via Enzo Ferrari, Varano de' Melegari, PR, Italy
Davide Formaggioni
Bercella S.R.L. 10 Via Enzo Ferrari, Varano de' Melegari, PR, Italy
Michael Sylvester Johnson
Composites Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Advanced Manufacturing Building, Jubilee Campus, United Kingdom
Preetum Jayantilal Mistry
Composites Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Advanced Manufacturing Building, Jubilee Campus, United Kingdom
Andrea Bernasconi
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Stefano Bruni
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Abstract

This paper presents a numerical design method to develop a mass-minimized winding sequence for carbon fiber reinforced tubes to be manufactured by filament winding. This method combines the use of Altair Optistruct Finite Element Solver and CADWIND V9 CAM software to develop a winding sequence to implicitly compensate for the loss of stiffness due to fiber intertwining. Hence, it was specifically built to solve a stiffness-driven mass optimization design task of a hybrid metal composite railway axle, in which the design constraints were imposed by a previously developed design solution. However, in theory, it could be applied to the design of composite shafts for various applications.

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Carra, G., Formaggioni, D., Johnson, M. S., Mistry, P. J., Bernasconi, A., & Bruni, S. (2022). Optimization of a Filament Wound Hybrid Metal Composite Railway Axle Design Concept. Applied Science and Engineering Progress, 15(2), 5791. https://doi.org/10.14416/j.asep.2022.03.006
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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): Special Issue
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