Out-of-round railway wheels-assessment of wheel tread irregularities in train traffic

Journal of Sound and Vibration

Volumn 293, Issue 3-5, 2006, Pages 795-806

  Johansson, Anders ^a,b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Epsilon HighTech AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAKING; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROAD TRACKS; RAILROAD TRAFFIC CONTROL; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MECHANICAL CONTACT MEASUREMENT; RAIL ROUGHNESS; THREE-JAW CHUCK;

VEHICLE WHEELS;

EID: 33645893497     PISSN: 0022460X     EISSN: 10958568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2005.08.048     Document Type: Article

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