Simulation of wheel-rail contact forces

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 887-900

  Iwnicki, S ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contact forces; Profiles; Railway vehicle dynamics; Vehicle dynamics; Wheel rail interaction

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; ELASTIC MODULI; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLES; WHEELS;

CONTACT PATCH; PASSENGER TRAIN; RAILWAY VEHICLE; WHEEL-RAIL CONTACT FORCES;

RAILS;

EID: 0242368856     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.2003.00699.x     Document Type: Article

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