I.S. EN 12299:2009
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RAILWAY APPLICATIONS - RIDE COMFORT FOR PASSENGERS - MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION
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01-01-2009
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Foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Symbols, units and abbreviations
5 General description
5.1 General
5.2 Passenger exposure to vibrations
5.3 Application
5.4 Characteristics of railway vehicle motions
5.5 Ride comfort
5.6 Direct and indirect measurements
5.7 Summary table of procedures
5.8 Application of comfort indices
6 Mean Comfort and Continuous Comfort
6.1 General
6.2 Base of the method
6.3 Methodology
6.4 Test conditions
6.4.1 General
6.4.2 Selection of test sections
6.4.3 Test speed
6.4.4 Wheel-rail contact geometry
6.4.5 Vehicle condition
6.5 Parameters to be measured
6.5.1 General
6.5.2 Location of measuring points
6.5.3 Filtering
6.6 Definition of intermediate quantities
6.6.1 Symbols and indices
6.6.2 Rms-values of weighted accelerations
6.6.3 95th and 50th percentiles
6.7 Definition of comfort indexes
6.7.1 Continuous Comfort
6.7.2 Mean Comfort Standard Method
6.7.3 Mean Comfort Complete Method
6.8 Test report
7 Comfort on Curve Transitions
7.1 General
7.2 Base of the method
7.3 Methodology
7.4 Test conditions
7.4.1 General
7.4.2 Selection of test sections
7.4.3 Test speed
7.4.4 Wheel-rail contact geometry
7.4.5 Vehicle condition
7.5 Parameters to be measured
7.5.1 General
7.5.2 Location of measuring points
7.5.3 Filtering
7.6 Definition of intermediate quantities
7.6.1 Symbols and indices
7.6.2 Averaging procedure
7.6.3 Identification of transition periods
7.6.4 Intermediate quantities
7.7 Definition of comfort index P[CT]
7.8 Test report
7.9 Example diagrams
8 Comfort on Discrete Events
8.1 General
8.2 Base of the method
8.3 Methodology
8.4 Test conditions
8.4.1 General
8.4.2 Selection of test sections
8.4.3 Test speed
8.4.4 Wheel-rail contact geometry
8.4.5 Vehicle condition
8.5 Parameters to be measured
8.5.1 General
8.5.2 Location of measuring points
8.5.3 Filtering
8.6 Definition of intermediate quantities
8.6.1 Symbols and indices
8.6.2 Averaging procedure
8.6.3 Intermediate quantities
8.7 Definition of comfort index P[DE]
8.8 Test report
8.9 Example diagrams
9 Guide for the interpretation of the results (Informative)
9.1 General
9.2 Mean Comfort
9.3 Continuous Comfort
9.4 Comfort on Curve Transitions
9.5 Comfort on Discrete Events
Annex A (normative) Reference system
Annex B (normative) Measurement techniques
B.1 General
B.2 Measuring equipment
B.2.1 General
B.2.2 Accelerometers and processing amplifiers
B.2.3 Recording equipment
B.2.4 Fixing transducers to the floor
B.3 Seat measuring devices and their applications
Annex C (normative) Weighting curves
C.1 General
C.2 Filter functions
C.2.1 General
C.2.2 Band-limiting filter
C.2.3 Acceleration to velocity transition
C.2.4 Upward gradient
C.2.5 Overall frequency weighting
C.2.6 Reduction of the upper limit of the frequency
range in vertical direction
C.3 Tolerances
C.4 Diagrams
Annex D (informative) Presentation of test report
D.1 General
D.2 Aim of test
D.3 Test performer
D.4 References
D.5 Test conditions
D.5.1 General information
D.5.2 Vehicle
D.5.3 Seat (for Mean Comfort Complete Method)
D.5.4 Seat occupant (for Mean Comfort Complete Method)
D.5.5 Track
D.5.6 Speed profile
D.5.7 Test configurations
D.6 Measurements and processing
D.6.1 Measurements
D.6.2 Processing
D.7 Report on Mean Comfort and Continuous Comfort
D.7.1 General
D.7.2 Time series
D.7.3 Statistical results
D.7.4 Comfort evaluation
D.7.5 Spectral analyses
D.7.6 Examples of diagrams
D.8 Report on comfort in curve transitions
D.9 Reporting on Comfort on Discrete Events
Annex E (normative) Vehicle assessment with respect to Mean
Comfort Standard Method
E.1 General
E.2 Track geometric quality
E.3 Test conditions
E.3.1 Selection of test sections and test zones
E.3.2 Test speed
E.3.3 Wheel-rail contact geometry
E.3.4 Vehicle condition
E.4 Acceptable modifications of the methods for Mean
Comfort evaluation
E.5 Test report
Annex F (informative) Guideline for the application of direct
tests
Annex G (informative) Workflow for numerical integration
Annex H (informative) Determining quantities
Bibliography
Defines methods for quantifying the effects of vehicle body motions on ride comfort for passengers and vehicle assessment with respect to ride comfort.
| DevelopmentNote |
Supersedes I.S. ENV 12299. (07/2009)
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| DocumentType |
Standard
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| Pages |
64
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| PublisherName |
National Standards Authority of Ireland
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| Status |
Current
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| Supersedes |
| Standards | Relationship |
| EN 12299:2009 | Identical |
| ISO 10056:2001 | Mechanical vibration Measurement and analysis of whole-body vibration to which passengers and crew are exposed in railway vehicles |
| EN 14363:2016 | Railway applications - Testing and Simulation for the acceptance of running characteristics of railway vehicles - Running Behaviour and stationary tests |
| ISO 5353:1995 | Earth-moving machinery, and tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry Seat index point |
| UIC 513 : 1ED 1994 | GUIDELINES FOR EVALUATING PASSENGER COMFORT IN RELATION TO VIBRATION IN RAILWAY VEHICLES |
| ISO 2631-4:2001 | Mechanical vibration and shock — Evaluation of human exposure to whole-body vibration — Part 4: Guidelines for the evaluation of the effects of vibration and rotational motion on passenger and crew comfort in fixed-guideway transport systems |
| EN ISO 5353:1998 | Earth-moving machinery, and tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry - Seat index point (ISO 5353:1995) |
| ISO 8002:1986 | Mechanical vibrations — Land vehicles — Method for reporting measured data |
| ISO 8041:2005 | Human response to vibration Measuring instrumentation |
| ISO 2631-1:1997 | Mechanical vibration and shock — Evaluation of human exposure to whole-body vibration — Part 1: General requirements |
| ISO 5348:1998 | Mechanical vibration and shock Mechanical mounting of accelerometers |
| ISO 5805:1997 | Mechanical vibration and shock — Human exposure — Vocabulary |
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