A new wheel-rail contact model for railway dynamics

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 165-189

  Pombo, Joo ^a   Ambrósio, Jorge ^a   Silva, Miguel ^a  

^a Instituto Superior Tecnico Institute for Mechanical Engineering   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Contact point detection; Creep forces; Spatial curves; Stability critical speed

Indexed keywords

FLANGES; GEOMETRY; HEURISTIC METHODS; KINEMATICS; WHEELS;

CONTACT POINT DETECTION; CREEP FORCES; SPATIAL CURVES; STABILITY CRITICAL SPEED;

RAILROAD TRACKS;

EID: 33847244879     PISSN: 00423114     EISSN: 17445159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00423110600996017     Document Type: Article

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