Development and implementation of a differential elastic wheel-rail contact model for multibody applications

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 969-1001

  Meli, E ^a   Magheri, S ^a   Malvezzi, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

contact between elastic bodies; multibody modelling; wheel rail contact

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ANALYSIS; ANALYTICAL CONTACT; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONTACT FORCES; CONTACT MODELS; CONTACT PATCH; CONTACT PHENOMENA; CONTACT PROBLEM; DEFORMABLE BODIES; ELASTIC BODY; ELASTICITY EQUATIONS; GOOD COMPATIBILITY; MANCHESTER; MATLAB/SIMULINK ENVIRONMENT; MEMORY STORAGE; MULTI-BODY; MULTI-BODY MODELS; MULTIBODY APPLICATIONS; MULTIBODY MODELLING; MULTIPLE CONTACTS; NUMERICAL EFFICIENCY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; RAILWAY DYNAMICS; RAILWAY TRACK; RAILWAY VEHICLES; SIMPACK; VEHICLE DYNAMICS; WHEEL-RAIL CONTACT; WHEEL-RAIL CONTACTS;

AUTOMOBILE BODIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; END EFFECTORS; LOCOMOTIVES; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; RAILS; VEHICLE WHEELS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 79957952783     PISSN: 00423114     EISSN: 17445159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00423114.2010.504854     Document Type: Article

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