Investigation of the dynamic contact filter effect in vertical wheel/rail interaction using a 2D and a 3D non-Hertzian contact model

Wear

Volumn 271, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 328-338

  Pieringer, A ^a   Kropp, W ^a   Thompson, D J ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contact filter; Non Hertzian contact; Time domain modelling; Wheel rail interaction

Indexed keywords

2-D MODEL; AT-WAVELENGTH; CONTACT FILTER; CONTACT FORCES; CONTACT MODELS; CONTACT PATCH; DYNAMIC CONTACTS; ELASTIC HALF SPACE; NON-HERTZIAN CONTACT; PARALLEL LINE; PRE-PROCESSING; PROFILE HEIGHTS; ROLLING NOISE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TIME DOMAIN; TIME-DOMAIN MODEL; WHEEL/RAIL; WHEEL/RAIL INTERACTION; WINKLER;

END EFFECTORS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VEHICLE WHEELS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79955772494     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2010.10.029     Document Type: Article

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