• Akiti Sachet
• Ashwin T K
• Sakhireddy Swamy sekhar
• Chinnakotla Bhargava
• Addanki Rahul

Rail track inspection, repairing, and maintenance are the critical requirements to prolong the service life of the rail track and to ensure the safety, reliability, and smooth running of trains. Usually, handcars, railway speeders, push trolleys, motor trolleys are used by railway service personnel for the inspection and maintenance of railway tracks. These maintenance vehicles are propelled by human power or by internal combustion engines or pushed by service personnel to carry heavy freight to long distances for maintenance purposes. The maintenance vehicles that are human-powered cause a huge burden to maintenance workers since human labour is used to propel the vehicle and the Internal combustion engine-powered maintenance vehicle is responsible for the emission of greenhouse gases and air pollution hence causes huge environmental impact. Also, most of these vehicles do not provide any protection from harsh natural adversity like scorching heat or rain causing huge discomfort to the maintenance workers. In the present study, considering the modern-day demand for Electric vehicles (EVs), we have developed an environmentally safe and sustainable hybrid-electric railway rail car design and model, that will reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and air pollution and also these vehicles reduce the burden and discomfort experienced by the railway maintenance workers. The Hybrid electric railway rail car is designed to propel by both an electrically powered motor drive system and a human-powered chain drive system. The vehicle design adopts shelf bicycle and electric vehicle technology, which work together to create a lightweight vehicle. The vehicle design has provisions for engagement and disengagement of a trolley at the rear side of the vehicle for carrying freight. In addition, the vehicle is designed to provide enough protection to the railway maintenance workers against harsh natural adversity like scorching sun and rain. The vehicle is designed and modeled using Solid works 2020 software and FEA analyses are performed on the different components of the vehicle using ANSYS 16.2 software.

Maintenance vehicles, hybrid-electric vehicle, FEA analysis

"Design, Modeling, and Analysis of Hybrid Electric Rail Car for Maintenance Purpose", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no.b808-b817, May-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105230.pdf

"Design, Modeling, and Analysis of Hybrid Electric Rail Car for Maintenance Purpose", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no. ppb808-b817, May-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105230.pdf