Determination of wheel-rail contact points with semianalytic methods

Multibody System Dynamics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 327-358

  Malvezzi, Monica ^a   Meli, Enrico ^a   Falomi, Stefano ^a   Rindi, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contact point location; On line contact detection; Railway simulation

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; END EFFECTORS; LOCOMOTIVES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VEHICLE WHEELS; WHEELS;

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; CONTACT FORCES; CONTACT POINT LOCATION; CONTACT POINTS; CONTACT SURFACES; D-SYSTEM; EFFICIENT METHODS; LOCAL MAXIMUM; LOCAL MINIMUMS; MULTI-BODY SIMULATION; ON-LINE CONTACT DETECTION; ORIGINAL PROBLEM; RAILWAY SIMULATION; RAILWAY VEHICLE DYNAMICS; WHEEL - RAIL CONTACT;

RAILS;

EID: 52549122501     PISSN: 13845640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11044-008-9123-5     Document Type: Article

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