Abstract

Turkish Hard Coal Enterprise (TTK), uses 17 tones Eimco battery locomotives in production of coal and exposes the fatigue failures in driving shafts during operation. It is difficult and sometimes impossible to make analysis and testes on mine locomotives, tested by new arrangement to determine the cause of problem due to lack of field and volume, underground condition and security. So, it is possible to make testes for some operating condition and evaluation of results by developing a virtual prototype of locomotive and wagons. In this study, a virtual prototype of Eimco battery locomotive and wagons is developed by using Automatic Dynamic Analysis of Mechanical Systems (ADAMS) with ADAMS Rail module for railway vehicles. Bearing loads are evaluated for certain operating condition and compare with models data to examine. Results come to an agreement with experimental data.