Assessment of methods for calculating contact pressure in wheel-rail/switch contact

Wear

Volumn 265, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 1439-1445

  Wiest, M ^a,b   Kassa, E ^c   Daves, W ^a,b   Nielsen, J C O ^c   Ossberger, H ^d  

^a MATERIALS CENTER LEOBEN FORSCHUNG GMBH   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (Austria)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d VAE GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Contact pressure and contact forces; Crossing; Finite element modelling; Multibody dynamics; Wheel rail contact

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELASTICITY; MATERIALS SCIENCE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ONTOLOGY; PRESSURE; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; RAILS; VEHICLE WHEELS; WHEELS;

(2+1) DIMENSIONS; COMMERCIAL CODES; COMPUTER PROGRAMS; CONTACT AREAS; CONTACT LOADS; CONTACT PATCH; CONTACT POINTS; CONTACT PRESSURES; CURVATURE (SORI); ELASTIC MATERIALS; ELASTIC-PLASTIC FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT (FE); HALF SPACES; HERTZIAN; INPUT DATA; PENETRATION DEPTHS; PLASTIFICATION; RADII OF CURVATURE; RAIL ROLLING; VEHICLE DYNAMICS SIMULATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 48149109258     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2008.02.039     Document Type: Article

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