Subsurface crack face displacements in railway wheels

Wear

Volumn 258, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 1038-1047

  Lansler, Eka ^a   Kabo, Elena ^a,b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Semcon AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crack face displacement; Finite element modelling; Rolling contact fatigue; Subsurface crack

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CRACK LENGTHS; LOAD MAGNITUDE; SUBSURFACE CRACKS; WHEEL TREAD;

WHEELS;

ROLLING CONTACT;

EID: 13844265895     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2004.03.053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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