Optimal design of wheel profile for railway vehicles

Wear

Volumn 258, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 1022-1030

  Shevtsov, I Y ^a   Markine, V L ^a   Esveld, C ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Shape optimization; Wheel profile design; Wheel rail contact

Indexed keywords

BOGIES (RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; OPTIMIZATION; ROLLING RESISTANCE; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

ROLLING RADII DIFFERENCE (RRD); STEERING CONTROL SYSTEMS; WHEEL PROFILE; WHEELSET DYNAMICS;

WHEELS;

RAILWAY;

EID: 13844250463     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2004.03.051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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