Wheel/rail rolling noise - The effects of non-linearities in the contact zone

Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress on Sound and Vibration

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1653-1672

  Thompson, David ^a   Wuand, Tianxing ^a   Armstrong, Tristan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; NOISE ABATEMENT; RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK; STIFFNESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TENSION;

NOISE RADIATION; NON-LINEAR STIFFNESS; RAIL DYNAMICS; RAIL ROLLING NOISE; STEEPING MODEL;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 2342439043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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