A numerical model of twin disc test arrangement for the evaluation of railway wheel wear prediction methods

Wear

Volumn 268, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 660-667

  Tassini, N ^a   Quost, X ^a   Lewis, R ^a   Dwyer Joyce, R ^a   Ariaudo, C ^b   Kuka, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ALSTOM   (France)

Author keywords

Contact model; Railway wheel wear; Twin disc testing; Wear coefficients

Indexed keywords

CONTACT MODELS; CONTACT PATCH; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; NUMERICAL MODELS; RAIL STEEL; RAILWAY WHEEL WEAR; RAILWAY WHEELS; TANGENTIAL FORCE; TWIN DISC TESTING; TWIN-DISC; TWIN-DISC TEST; WEAR ALGORITHM; WEAR COEFFICIENT; WEAR FUNCTION; WEAR RATES;

END EFFECTORS; MARTENSITIC STAINLESS STEEL; NUMERICAL METHODS; RAILROADS; VEHICLE WHEELS;

RAILS;

EID: 74949144673     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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