Characteristic parameters of nonlinear wheel/rail contact geometry

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volumn 48, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 19-36

  Polach, Oldrich ^a  

^a BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION   (Sweden)

Author keywords

critical speed; equivalent conicity; stability; wheel rail contact geometry

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC PARAMETER; CONTACT NONLINEARITY; CRITICAL SPEED; EQUIVALENT CONICITY; RAILWAY VEHICLES; STABILITY LIMIT; TWO PARAMETER; WHEEL/RAIL CONTACT;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; LOCOMOTIVES; RAILROADS;

VEHICLE WHEELS;

EID: 78649799249     PISSN: 00423114     EISSN: 17445159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00423111003668203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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