The reliability analysis for some subassemblies in the structure of 060-DA diesel-electric locomotive

Abstract

The increasing complexity of technical systems, together with their increasingly important functions, determines the continuously growing importance of reliability studies. The working regime parameters are more and more intense, the operating conditions are more and more complex, leading to the need of a large scale automation of production processes, and also of their control, including the use of some powerful process computers. Industrial products, mechanical equipment and devices, various machine components, and so on, they can all be regarded as basic units with autonomous operation, embedded in complex aggregates or installations. The 060-DA diesel-electric locomotive is SUCH a complex set of components and subassemblies, working together, so that any accidental failure of a basic constituent could lead to a total or partial decommissioning of the locomotive, or to its incorrect operation. The subject of the present paper is a reliability analysis for the most important components and subassemblies from the structure of 060-DA diesel-electric locomotive.