Fatigue crack initiation life prediction of railroad wheels

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 747-756

  Liu, Yongming ^a   Stratman, Brant ^a   Mahadevan, Sankaran ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Life prediction; Multiaxial; Railroad wheels; Rolling contact fatigue

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; RAILROAD BEARINGS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

LIFE PREDICTION; MULTIAXIAL; RAILROAD WHEELS; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE;

CRACK INITIATION;

EID: 33645998413     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2005.09.007     Document Type: Article

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