A study on wear evaluation of railway wheels based on multibody dynamics and wear computation

Multibody System Dynamics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 347-366

  Pombo, Joao ^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

Multibody systems; Railway dynamics; Traction braking forces; Wheel profile wear

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; MULTI BODY SYSTEMS; MULTI-BODY; MULTI-BODY DYNAMIC; POST PROCESSING; RAILWAY DYNAMICS; RAILWAY ENGINEERING; RAILWAY SYSTEM; RAILWAY VEHICLES; RAILWAY WHEELS; SAFETY BENEFITS; SERVICE CONDITIONS; STEEL WHEELS; WEAR EVALUATION; WHEEL PROFILE; WHEEL PROFILE WEAR; WHEELSETS;

DATA HANDLING; RAILROADS; VEHICLE WHEELS; VEHICLES;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 80054983592     PISSN: 13845640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11044-010-9217-8     Document Type: Article

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