The effects of top of rail friction modifier on wear and rolling contact fatigue: Full-scale rail-wheel test rig evaluation, analysis and modelling

Wear

Volumn 265, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 1222-1230

  Eadie, Donald T ^a   Elvidge, Dave ^a   Oldknow, Kevin ^a   Stock, Richard ^b   Pointner, Peter ^b   Kalousek, Joe ^c   Klauser, Peter ^d  

^a Kelsan Technologies Corp   (Canada)

^b Voest Alpine AG   (Austria)

^c Joe Kalousek Consulting Ltd   (Canada)

^d Peter Klauser   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact modelling; Friction modifier application; Full scale wheel rail test stand; Rolling contact fatigue (RCF); Wear; Wheel rail contact

Indexed keywords

CURING; DRYING; FRICTION; PAPER PRODUCTS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RAILS; STEEL METALLURGY; TESTING; THICK FILMS; VEHICLE WHEELS; WHEELS;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; (OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; CONTACT CONDITIONS; DRY CONDITIONS; DYNAMIC CONDITIONS; FRICTION MODIFIERS; FULL SCALE; HEAD CHECKS; PEAK PRESSURES; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE (RCF); SURFACE CRACKS; TEST CONDITIONS; TEST RIGS; TEST STANDS;

MODAL ANALYSIS;

FATIGUE; FRICTION; METALLURGY; PLASTIC FLOW; RAILS; ROLLING; STEEL; WEAR; WHEELS;

EID: 48149095661     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2008.02.029     Document Type: Article

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