Engineering Technology and Applications – Shao, Shu & Tian (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-02705-3
Mechanical design of railway bed cleaning based on the virtual
prototype technology of engineering machiner y
Chen Chen & Chunhua Li
Baoding Vocational and Technical College, Baoding, Hebei, China
ABSTRACT: Railroad is the lifeblood in a nation’s transportation and communications, therefore
regular maintenance is essential for the railroad departments, among which sand cleaning shall be
addressed on a strict basis. Since the accumulative sand in railway is hard to clean up, more
appropriate and efficient machines are required to support the cleaning operation. Taking such
concern into account, the author redesigned the sand ...