Railway Bogie Stability Analysis

Write a short report – no more than six pages – in which you should: Develop a way to characterise and quantify the stability of the bogie, both considering the safety of the vehicle and the comfort of the passengers. Show how changing the parameters of the simulation affects the stability of the bogie. Find or estimate appropriate values for the wheelbase, masses and moments of inertia (the default values are just guesses), justifying your choices, and determine suitable spring stiffness values that maximise stability. Six pages may seem very limited, but in industry there is often a demand for brief, even one-or-two page reports that summarise research and make a recommendation. Academic papers typically aim to be 6-8 pages, including everything. The challenge, therefore, is to use the given space wisely without sacrificing clarity. Pages should be numbered. Main report (not including title/cover page, references and appendices, if any) should be no more than six pages. (A table of contents is not required.) A short abstract (one paragraph) that describes the problem, outlines the approach, and summarises the key conclusions. Clear structure: Introduction / Methodology / Results & Discussion / Conclusions Fonts, line spacing and paragraph styles should be consistent. Text in figures, tables and equations should be readable and not overly large. Non-symbols in equations should not be in italics. Units should not be in italics. Do not use bold or underline for emphasis. All tables and figures should be numbered and have descriptive captions. Tables are not figures. Graphs and charts and images and sketches and photos, etc., are all figures. Equations, ideally (but not necessarily), should be numbered also, at the right⇢(1)