A railway wheel wear prediction tool based on multibody software

Proceedings of the Mini Conference on Vehicle System Dynamics, Identification and Anomalies

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 159-168

  Pombo, J ^a   Quost, X ^b   Tassini, N ^b   Ambrosio J ^a   Pereira, M ^a   Lewis, R ^b   Dwyer Joyce, R ^b   Ariaudo, C ^c   Kuka, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c ALSTOM   (France)

Author keywords

Multibody systems dynamics; Profile updating; Railway dynamics; Vehicle track interaction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; FRICTION CONDITIONS; MULTI BODY SYSTEMS; MULTI-BODY; OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE; POST PROCESSING; PROFILE UPDATING; RAILWAY DYNAMICS; RAILWAY WHEEL WEAR; REAL VEHICLES; SAFETY ASPECTS; TRACK GEOMETRY; VEHICLE-TRACK INTERACTION; WEAR ESTIMATION; WEAR PREDICTION; WHEEL PROFILE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; FORECASTING; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; SYSTEM THEORY; VEHICLE WHEELS; VEHICLES;

RAILS;

EID: 79959825661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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