RAIL VEHICLE WITH DILATION PROFILE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A RAIL VEHICLE WITH DILATION PROFILE

Abstract

The invention relates to a rail vehicle having a car body comprising an upper level and a lower level separated by an intermediate floor. The intermediate floor comprises at least two intermediate floor elements, the intermediate floor elements being arranged one behind the other in the longitudinal direction of the rail vehicle. A dilation profile is disposed between a first and second intermediate floor element.

Claims

1. A rail vehicle comprising a car body having an upper and a lower level and an intermediate floor separating the upper level from the lower level, wherein the intermediate floor comprises at least two intermediate floor elements, the intermediate floor elements being arranged one behind the other in a longitudinal direction of the rail vehicle, wherein a dilation profile is arranged between the first intermediate floor element and the second intermediate floor element.

2. The rail vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the intermediate floor elements comprise at least one of plastic, steel, and/or light metal.

3. The rail vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the dilation profile comprises at least one of an elastomeric plastic and metal.

4. The rail vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the dilation profile is anisotropic to the action of force.

5. The rail vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the dilation profile is connected to the first intermediate floor element and second intermediate floor element by at least one of adhesive bonding and/or welding.

6. The rail vehicle according to claim 1, wherein a cross-section of the dilation profile comprises two floor element contact surfaces having a greater dimension than the dimension of an area substantially centrally between the floor element contact surfaces parallel to the floor element contact surfaces.

7. The rail vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the intermediate floor elements are connected to the side walls of the car body.

8. The rail vehicle according to claim 7, wherein thermal insulation elements are arranged between the side wall of the car body and the intermediate floor elements.

9. A method for manufacturing a rail vehicle according to claim 1, comprising: connecting a dilation profile to two intermediate floor elements by welding, to produce the intermediate floor.

10. A dilation profile for connecting two intermediate floor elements, comprising a dilation profile body which has a cross-section having two floor element contact surfaces and two profile surfaces substantially perpendicular thereto, the dilation profile being designed to be anisotropic to the action of force.

11. Dilation profile according to claim 10, wherein the profile surfaces have a greater dimension in the cross-section of the dilation profile than the floor element contact surfaces.

12. The dilation profile according to claim 10, wherein the profile surfaces each have a groove in their central region.

13. The dilation profile according to claim 12, wherein the groove in the cross section of the dilation profile has a groove outer region which has a smaller minimum dimension in the transverse direction of the dilation profile than the maximum dimension of the groove inner region in the transverse direction of the dilation profile.

14. The dilation profile according to claim 13, wherein the cross-section of the groove is concave-convex.

15. A method of making a dilation profile according to claim 10, comprising: extrusion of a dilation profile made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy or extruding at least one of an elastomeric plastic and a light metal to form a dilation profile.

16. The rail vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the dilation profile comprises a light metal and is produced by extrusion.

17. The rail vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the dilation profile is connected to the first intermediate floor element and second intermediate floor element by adhesive friction stir welding.

18. The rail vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the intermediate floor elements are connected to the side walls of the car body by one of welding and fasting elements.

19. The method according to claim 9, comprising: connecting a dilation profile to two intermediate floor elements by stir welding to produce the intermediate floor.

20. The dilation profile according to claim 10, wherein the floor element contact surfaces have a greater dimension than the dimension of an area of the dilation profile body substantially centrally between the floor element contact surfaces parallel to the floor element contact surface.

Description

[0116] The inventions are explained in more detail below with the aid of figures:

[0117] FIG. 1: an embodiment of an intermediate floor of a rail vehicle;

[0118] FIG. 2: an embodiment of a dilation profile between two intermediate floor elements;

[0119] FIG. 3: an embodiment of a dilation profile in cross-section;

[0120] FIG. 4: an embodiment of a car body with an intermediate floor in cross-section.

[0121] FIG. 1 shows a version of an intermediate floor 3 of a rail vehicle for mounting in a car body. This intermediate floor serves to separate an upper level from a lower level.

[0122] The dilation profiles 6 are each arranged between two intermediate floor elements 4, 5. The dilation profiles 6 are arranged along the entire length of the intermediate floor 3 in the transverse direction, spacing some intermediate floor elements 4, 5 in the longitudinal direction of the intermediate floor 3.

[0123] The intermediate floor elements 4, 5 are made of double-walled and vertically-ribbed extruded aluminum profiles. The dilation profiles 6 are made of double-walled extruded aluminum profiles.

[0124] The intermediate floor elements 4, 5 are welded to the dilation profiles 6 by a friction stir welding process.

[0125] The number of dilation profiles 6 is adapted to the thermal deformation of the material and the length of the intermediate floor 3. The elastic range of the dilation profiles 6 should never be exceeded for all temperature ranges required in use.

[0126] In this embodiment, six dilation profiles 6 are arranged in the intermediate floor 3.

[0127] The dilation profiles 6 can elastically compensate for thermal expansion and contraction depending on the direction. The stiffness in the longitudinal direction of the intermediate floor 3 is reduced by the dilation profiles 6. The vertical stiffness of the intermediate floor 3, on the other hand, is reduced to a lesser extent.

[0128] To this end, the dilation profiles 6 are spaced at regular intervals as far as possible.

[0129] Longitudinal profiles 20 are attached to the sides of the intermediate floor 3, connecting a plurality of intermediate floor elements 4, 5. The longitudinal profiles 20 can be connected to supports 18 of the side wall 7 (not shown in FIG. 1) by fastening elements 19. In the area of high load, the distances between the fastening elements 19 are reduced so that the fastening elements 19 are not overloaded.

[0130] The fastening elements 19 in this design are rivets.

[0131] FIG. 2 shows two intermediate floor elements 4, 5 which are joined together by the dilation profile 6 by welding 17. Here, the intermediate floor elements 4, 5 and the dilation profile 6 have essentially the same vertical height H.

[0132] The ribs 14 of the intermediate floor elements 4, 5 increase the rigidity of the double-walled intermediate floor elements 4, 5.

[0133] A groove 8 is arranged on each of the upper and lower profile surfaces 15 and extends along the entire longitudinal axis of the dilation profile 6. The floor element contact surface 9 extends on both sides along the connection areas of the dilation profile 6 with the intermediate floor elements 4, 5.

[0134] FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the dilation profile 6 in cross-section. The floor element contact surfaces 9 are arranged laterally and are provided for connection to the intermediate floor elements 4, 5. The profile surfaces 15 are arranged at the top and bottom and have a groove 8. The groove outer region 13 has a smaller minimum dimension N1 than the maximum dimension N2 of the groove inner region 16.

[0135] The dimension B1 of the dilation profile 6 along the floor element contact surfaces 9 is smaller than the dimension B3 along the profile surface 15 of the dilation profile. The cross-section of the dilation profile 6 is substantially rectangular.

[0136] The bottom portions of the upper and lower grooves 8 have no connection and are spaced apart by a distance B2. Thus, the groove 8 can act as a resilient structure and thermal deformation in the transverse direction x of the dilation profile 6 can be elastically compensated. This resilient property of the dilation profile is supported by the fact that the material thickness in the area of the groove 8, the concave-convex structure and the bottom area of the groove is 1.6 mm. The remaining area of the profile surface 15, however, has a higher material thickness of 2.2 mm.

[0137] As can be seen in FIG. 3, the groove 8 is designed as a concave-convex curved structure in cross-section. In this way, the force is distributed as evenly as possible over a larger area of the groove 8 by deformation.

[0138] FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of a car body 2 with an intermediate floor 3 in cross section. The intermediate floor 3 separates an upper level 11 and a lower level 10. The intermediate floor 3 is attached by rivets as fastening elements 19 to a support 18 of each side wall 7.

[0139] A thermal insulation element 12 is also arranged between the support 18 of the side wall 7. The thermal insulation element 12 minimizes the thermal conductivity between the side wall 7 of the car body 2 and the intermediate floor 3.