Prediction of the growth of wear-type rail corrugation

Wear

Volumn 258, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 1001-1013

  Meehan, P A ^a   Daniel, W J T ^a   Campey, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corrugation; Delay equations; Dynamical instability; Rail wear dynamics; Railway finite element modelling; Rolling contact mechanics

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROLLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEHICLE WHEELS;

FEEDBACK INTERACTION; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; WHEEL PASS TIME;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

WEAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 13844270754     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2004.03.049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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