Material defects in rolling contact fatigue of railway wheels - The influence of defect size

Wear

Volumn 258, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 1194-1200

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

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Semcon AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Material defects; Multiaxial fatigue; Railway wheels; Rolling contact fatigue

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFECTS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADS (FORCES); RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK; RAILROADS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

RAILWAY WHEELS; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE; ROLLING CONTACT LOADING; UNIAXIAL TENSILE LOADING;

VEHICLE WHEELS;

FATIGUE ANALYSIS;

EID: 13844264354     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2004.03.070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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