Full-scale railway wheel flat experiments

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-13

  Jergeus J ^a   Odenmarck, C ^a   Lunden R ^a   Sotkovszki, P ^a   Karlsson, B ^a   Cullers, P ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Swedish State Railways   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; MAINTENANCE; MARTENSITE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLOGRAPHY; SPALLING; VEHICLE WHEELS;

FRICTION COEFFICIENT; RAILWAY WHEEL FLAT;

RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK;

EID: 0032633495     PISSN: 09544097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/0954409991530985     Document Type: Article

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