UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 17, 2015. Ural Railcar-Building Design Office (a member enterprise of UVZ Corporation) will now repair APE 95 UVZ elastomeric shock absorbers, the company press service reports.

The T2 grade absorbers get mounted onto tank cars meant for transportation of valuable or hazardous cargo (GOST 19433-88 Class 3, 4, 5, 8, 9) and onto railcars whose weight exceeds 120,000 kg and main-line locomotives. Both the absorbers and the repair specifications were developed by the design office itself.

Until quite recently, the absorbers had to be repaired at the corporation’s head plant, but now this will be done at the design office. The ad hoc production facility’s capacity is estimated at 100 absorbers a month, at least, in the case of very complicated and material-intensive repairs. It takes no more than three days to dismantle, clean, and repair one absorber.

The design office representatives explain repairing the elastomeric shock absorbers will mean they will be able to gather data on the product’s performance on railways, single out the components that decrease its operational reliability, and produce the necessary design or technological adjustments in order to ensure no-failure operation.