Development of a wear prediction tool for steel railway wheels using three alternative wear functions

Wear

Volumn 271, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 238-245

  Pombo, João ^a   Ambrósio, Jorge ^a   Pereira, Manuel ^a   Lewis, Roger ^b   Dwyer Joyce, Rob ^b   Ariaudo, Caterina ^c   Kuka, Naim ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c ALSTOM   (France)

Author keywords

Railway dynamics; Wear laws; Wheel profile updating; Wheel rail contact

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; CONTACT MODELS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; HIGH SPEED TRAINS; MULTI-BODY; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; OPERATIONAL SCENARIO; POST PROCESSING; RAILWAY DYNAMICS; RAILWAY SYSTEM; RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION; RAILWAY VEHICLES; RAILWAY WHEELS; ROAD TRAFFIC; VEHICLE DYNAMICS; WEAR FUNCTION; WEAR LAWS; WEAR MECHANISMS; WEAR PREDICTION; WHEEL PROFILE; WHEEL PROFILE UPDATING; WHEEL-RAIL CONTACTS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA HANDLING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FORECASTING; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; RAILS; TRIBOLOGY; VEHICLES;

VEHICLE WHEELS;

EID: 79955765498     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2010.10.072     Document Type: Article

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