High strength rail steels-The importance of material properties in contact mechanics problems

Wear

Volumn 265, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 1373-1379

  Pointner, Peter ^a  

^a Voest Alpine AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bainite; Perlite; Rail and wheel wear; Rail steel; Rolling contact fatigue

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FRICTION; RAILS; VEHICLE WHEELS;

CONTACT MECHANICS (B); GLOBAL SOLUTIONS; HIGH STRENGTH; LOAD CONDITIONS; MATE RIAL PROPERTIES; RAIL STEELS; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE (RCF); UNSOLVED PROBLEMS; WHEEL-RAIL CONTACTS;

MECHANICS;

EID: 48149115360     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2008.03.015     Document Type: Article

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