Taiwanese steel maker China Steel Corporation (CSC) has selected German simulation services provider VI-grade to provide its suite of railway simulation systems.
VI-Rail is a railway simulation software package that can build a parameterised model of a new railway vehicle, defining its suspension, wheelset, wheel-rail contact and other vital characteristics.
Running through a battery of simulations it is possible to determine the vehicle's stability, derailment safety clearance, track load and passenger comfort, according to VI-grade.
CSC recently won a service contract for Taiwan's Taipei Metro Rapid Transit system, and will use VI-Rail to offer multi-body dynamics simulation technology for the MRT rail vehicles.
VI-grade will work with the National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology and the National Cheng Kung University for the project.
