Mapping railway wheel material wear mechanisms and transitions

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 125-137

  Lewis, R ^a   Dwyer Joyce, R S ^a   Olofsson, U ^b   Pombo, J ^c   Ambrosio J ^c   Pereira, M ^c   Ariaudo, C ^d   Kuka, N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Instituto Superior Tecnico Institute for Mechanical Engineering   (Portugal)

^d ALSTOM   (France)

Author keywords

bench tests; railway wheel steel; wear laws; wear mapping

Indexed keywords

BENCH TESTS; CONTACT CONDITIONS; CONTACT PARAMETERS; HIGHER LOADS; IN-WHEEL; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MODELLING METHODOLOGY; NEW TOOLS; PARTIAL SLIP; RAIL MATERIAL; RAILWAY WHEEL STEEL; RAILWAY WHEEL STEELS; RAILWAY WHEELS; SLIDING SPEED; SLIP CONDITION; TEMPERATURE CALCULATION; TEST RESULTS; THERMALLY INDUCED; TWIN-DISC; WEAR CONSTANTS; WEAR MAPS; WEAR MECHANISMS; WEAR PREDICTION; WEAR RATES; WEAR REGIMES; WEAR TRANSITION; WEAR-TESTING; WHEEL MATERIAL; WHEEL-RAIL CONTACTS; YIELD STRENGTH;

MAPPING; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MATERIALS TESTING; RAILROADS; RAILS; TRIBOLOGY; VEHICLE WHEELS;

WEAR OF MATERIALS;

EID: 77953797237     PISSN: 09544097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544097JRRT328     Document Type: Conference Paper

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