Modeling two-point wheel/rail contacts using constraint and elastic-force approaches

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 35-50

  Shabana, Ahmed A ^a   Zaazaa, Khaled E ^a   Escalona, José L ^b   Sany, Jalil R ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c Center for Automated Mechanics CAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; END EFFECTORS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; VEHICLE WHEELS;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ARBITRARY GEOMETRY; ARC LENGTH; COMMONLY USED; CONTACT CONSTRAINT; CONTACT POINTS; CREEP FORCE; DAMPING COEFFICIENTS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; ELASTIC FORCE; FIRST ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; FORCE-APPROACH; HERTZ'S CONTACT; MULTI-BODY; MULTIPLE POINTS; NON-LINEAR; NONLINEAR KINEMATICS; NORMAL CONTACT FORCE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POINTS OF CONTACT; RAIL SURFACES; SIX DEGREES OF FREEDOM; SURFACE PARAMETER; TWO-POINT; TWO-POINT CONTACT; WHEEL/RAIL; WHEEL/RAIL CONTACT; WHEEL/RAIL INTERACTION; WHEELSETS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 78249258762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2002-39601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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