A mathematical model to predict railway wheel profile evolution due to wear

Wear

Volumn 261, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1253-1264

  Braghin, F ^a   Lewis, R ^b   Dwyer Joyce, R S ^b   Bruni, S ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Numerical model; Railway wheel wear; Twin disc testing; Wear coefficients

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

NUMERICAL MODEL; RAILWAY WHEELS; TWIN DISK TESTING; WEAR COEFFICIENTS;

VEHICLE WHEELS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; VEHICLE WHEELS; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

EID: 33750964168     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2006.03.025     Document Type: Article

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