Noise-related roughness of railway wheel treadsfull-scale testing of brake blocks

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

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 63-77

  Petersson, M ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Corrugation; Experiments; Freight traffic; Hot spots; Noise; Railways; Roughness; Thermoelastic instabilities; Tread braking

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BRAKES; BRAKING; CAST IRON; DYNAMOMETERS; FRICTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMOELASTICITY; VEHICLE WHEELS;

RAILWAY WHEEL TREADS;

RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK;

EID: 0033683888     PISSN: 09544097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/0954409001531342     Document Type: Article

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