Practical implementation of results of ORE-ERRI research on wheel-rail contact interaction on the European railways

Wear

Volumn 191, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 121-125

  Korpanec, Imrich ^a   Pradier, H P ^a  

^a European Rail Research Institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ERRI research programme; Wheel rail contact

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; WEAR; WHEEL/RAIL INTERACTION; WHEELS;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; RAILROAD TRACKS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE WHEELS;

CORRUGATION REDUCTION; EUROPEAN RAIL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (ERRI); RAILWAY NOISE; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE (RCF); WHEEL RAIL CONTACT INTERACTION;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 0029656806     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0043-1648(95)06714-0     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Concerned ERRI Committees: Question C 116, Interaction between vehicles and track, 1970-1981; Question D 117, Optimum adaption of the conventional track to future traffic, 1970-1981; Question C 138, Permissible limit values for the Y and Q forces and derailment criteria, 1976-1986; Question E 139, Non-destructive examination procedures, 1978-1981; Question D 141, Effect on the track of raising the axle load from 20 to 22 t, 1978-1982; Question B 142, Conditions which should be complied with by wagon components for 22 t axle-load, 1978-1980; Question D 144, Updating of technical specifications for the supply of rails, 1975-1977; Question D 148, Means for improving rails, 1979-1983; Question D 150, Development of apparatus for measuring the longitudinal forces in rails laid in the track, 1978-1983; Question D 156, Possibilities of improving the service characteristics of rails by metallurgical means, 1983-1987; Question D 161, Dynamic vehicle-track interaction phenomena, from the point of view of track maintenance, 1984-1988.
2. D.F. Cannon and H. Pradier, Rail rolling contact fatigue: research by the European Rail Research Institute, in 4th Int. Conf. on Contact Mechanics and Wear of Rail-Wheel Systems, Vancouver, July 1994, in Wear, 191 (1996) 1-13.
3. K. Wick, H.R. Muster and H. Schmedders, Rail rolling contact fatigue: the performance of naturally hard and head-hardened rails in track, in 4th Int. Conf. on Contact Mechanics and Wear of Rail-Wheel Systems, Vancouver, July 1994, in Wear, 191 (1996) 54-64.
4. S. Bogdanski, M. Olzak and J. Stupnicki, Simulation of crack growth in rails due to transient load, in 4th Int. Conf. on Contact Mechanics and Wear of Rail-Wheel Systems, Vancouver, July 1994, in Wear, 191 (1996) 14-24.