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[For the English abstract and full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version)].ABSTRACT When the car building plant in Tver began serial production of new generation passenger cars, its specialists had to face the facts of not always justified modification of, it would seem, already comfortable and safe designs. In particular, weakened vibration parameters during the construction of lounge cars, bars, laboratories were found out. The feasibility of reducing the vibration indicators of the lounge car by increasing the bending stiffness of the body and selecting the most rational vertical damper of the central suspension is given. Keywords: railway, car building, lounge car, vibration, smooth running, bending stiffness, design, testing, parameters’ control.

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Investigations of the frequency of bending vibrations of the car bodies of 61-4440 model range, which includes compartment cars, staff cars, non-compartment cars, coach cars, restaurant cars and others, are described. The bodies of all cars of this model range have the same overall dimensions and are made of corrosionresistant steels (stainless) with flat corrugated sheathing of the lower (under the window) belt.To assess the influence of the design features of stainless steel bodies on its bending stiffness and the parameters of bending vibrations in the vertical plane, a computational and experimental complex of works was carried out.After analyzing the calculation results and experimental data, proposals were developed and implemented to increase the bending stiffness of the metal body structure with stainless steel skin. To check the implemented proposals, complex tests were carried out to determine the parameters of bending vibrations of the metal structure of the experimental body. The tests were carried out according to the combined method developed by the authors. For this, a vibrator, installed in the console parts of the body, and impulse excitation were used.The results of testing the metal structure of the experimental body in comparison with the results of testing the car bodies of 61-4440 model range showed the effectiveness of the implemented proposals, namely: increasing the frequency of the first tone of bending vibrations by 18 %; decrease in the amplitude of vertical vibrations of the body structure at the frequency of the first tone from 12 to 50 %; decrease in the amplitude of the vertical accelerations of the metal structure of the body during oscillations at the frequency of the first tone approximately by 2 times; significant reduction in horizontal acceleration in the area of the middle section walls. The effectiveness of the implemented proposals for increasing the bending stiffness of the metal structure of the experimental body allows recommending them for the entire model range of 61-4440 cars.

The development of the international trade and the entrance of domestic car manufacturers into international markets required bench equipment development for tests in accordance with the requirements of the European standards. In this connection the purpose of this work is to develop an experimental and methodical basis for the estimation of the strength correspondence of export railway produce to the European standard basis. In the work there is shown a description of the bench developed for static tests of rolling stock for loads corresponding to the European standard basis. In the requirements mentioned there is used a more extended list of loads and combination of efforts and the necessity in the application of longitudinal loads to the elements of the end wall in three levels should be particularly emphasized. On the test bench there are carried out static tests of the car of model 61-4514 for Egyptian national railways and the body of the motor-rail car of model 2853 for the railway infrastructure of Serbia.