Abstract
The shoe brake of the KTX is used in low speed when the electric brake is not effective. The main purpose of the shoe brake is to stop the train to a desired stop point at the station. Lots of defects have been encountered in the shoe brake unit since the KTX started its operation. To improve the reliability of shoe brake unit of the KTX power car, first of all, failure modes of the KTX shoe brake unit were analyzed. Main failure modes are cracks in the shoe friction material and fracture in the welded joints of the shoe backing steel structure. Several methods to remove the defects of the shoe brake unit were proposed and on-board tests were carried out: Increase of the strength of the shoe key and shoe cam, which decreased a little the occurrence of cracks in the shoe friction material; Redesign of the shoe backing steel structure, which eliminated the occurrence of the cracks in the backing plate but could not solve completely the crack problem in the shoe friction material; Development of a new friction material, which with redesign of the shoe backing steel structure could solve satisfactorily the crack problem in the shoe friction material.
고속철도 KTX 차량의 답면제동은 전기제동이 작용하지 않는 저속에서 열차를 정거장의 정위치에 정차시킬 때 주로 사용되는데 그 동안 균열발생, 제륜자 키 탈락 등 잦은 고장이 발생하였다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 고장의 원인을 규명하고 각 고장에 대해 해결책을 제시하고 시험평가를 통하여 개선효과를 검증하였다. 제륜자 키와 캠의 강도향상과 제륜자 마찰재 지지판의 강도향상은 제륜자 마찰재의 균열발생을 약간 줄이는 효과는 있었다. 지지판의 강도향상, 구조개선과 함께 제륜자의 재질을 변경하였을 때 마찰재에는 균열이 거의 발생되지 않았다.
