Assessment of the influence of preventive maintenance on the reliability and availability indexes of diesel locomotives
Authors:
- Maciej Szkoda,
- Grzegorz Kaczor,
- Robert Pilch,
- Maksymilian Smolnik
Abstract
The article investigates the influence of the preventive maintenance on the reliability and availability indexes of the railway means of transport. The research was done using the method based on fault tree analysis (FTA) and the Monte Carlo simulation. The authors performed a cause and effect analysis of the occurrence of undesirable events during the operation of selected vehicles. They identified the weakest components of the rail vehicle that affect the downtime and mean availability most significantly. Specialised software including Weibull++, BlockSim and MiniTab aided calculations were used to illustrate the application the results of a modernisation project involving a 6Dg diesel locomotive, carried out in cooperation with the biggest Polish rail carrier. The evaluation of reliability and availability was based on real operation data of a selected sample of 75 locomotives. The obtained results indicate that the proposed solution has a wide applicability potential.
- Record ID
- CUTc44dc5c478ab4baaa7457cb134ea8d74
- Publication categories
- ; ;
- Author
- Pages
- 786-801
- Other elements of collation
- rys.; tab.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 799-801; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 38; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Summ.
- Substantive notes
- Punktacja MNiSW/MEiN (rozdział) - 20
- Book
- Sładkowski A., A. Sładkowski Bąkowski H., H. Bąkowski Czech P. P. Czech [et al.] (eds.): Transport Problems 2020 : XII International Scientific Conference ; IX International Symposium of Young Researches under the honorary patronage of mayor of Katowice city and rector pf Silesian University of Technology : proceedings, Transport Problems, 2020, Katowice, Politechnika Śląska, Wydaw. Politechniki Śląskiej, ISBN 978-83-959742-0-5
- Keywords in English
- availability and reliability assessment
- Language
- eng (en) English
- Score (nominal)
- 100
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUTc44dc5c478ab4baaa7457cb134ea8d74/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUTc44dc5c478ab4baaa7457cb134ea8d74
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