Fatigue of railway wheels and rails under rolling contact and thermal loading-an overview

Wear

Volumn 258, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 1288-1300

  Ekberg, Anders ^a   Kabo, Elena ^a,b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Semcon AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Martensite formation; Railway rails; Railway wheels; Residual stresses; Rolling contact fatigue; Thermal loading

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK; RAILS; THERMAL LOAD;

RAILWAY WHEELS; ROLLING CONTACT; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE (RCF);

VEHICLE WHEELS;

FATIGUE ANALYSIS;

EID: 13844251998     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2004.03.039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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