Development of a model for the prediction of wheel and rail wear in the railway field

Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Ignesti, M ^a   Marini, L ^a   Meli, E ^a   Rindi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

multibody modeling; wheel rail contact; wheel rail wear

Indexed keywords

ALN; CONTACT FORCES; CONTACT MODELS; CONTACT PATCH; CONTACT POINTS; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; DISCRETE STEP; DYNAMICAL ANALYSIS; DYNAMICAL SIMULATION; INNOVATIVE ALGORITHMS; MULTI-BODY MODELS; MULTIBODY MODELING; RAIL WEAR; RAILWAY VEHICLES; TANGENTIAL FORCE; TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATIONS; VEHICLE MODEL; VEHICLE STABILITY; WEAR ESTIMATION; WEAR MODEL; WEAR PREDICTION; WHEEL-RAIL; WHEEL-RAIL CONTACTS; WHEEL-RAIL INTERACTION; WHEEL-RAIL INTERFACE; WORN PROFILES;

END EFFECTORS; RAIL LAYING; RAILROAD ROLLING STOCK; RAILROADS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VEHICLES; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

VEHICLE WHEELS;

EID: 84866054943     PISSN: 15551415     EISSN: 15551423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4006732     Document Type: Article

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