Influential factors on adhesion between wheel and rail under wet conditions

Quarterly Report of RTRI (Railway Technical Research Institute)

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 223-230

  Chen, Hua ^a   Ban, Takumi ^a   Ishida, Makoto ^a   Nakahara, Sunamitsu ^b  

^a RAILWAY TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Contact mechanics; Rail; Rolling contact; Wet; Wheel

Indexed keywords

ADHESION COEFFICIENT; CONTACT MECHANICS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MATERIAL SCIENCE; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; RESEARCH FIELDS; ROLLING CONTACTS; RUNNING SPEED; TWIN-DISC ROLLING CONTACT MACHINE; WATER FILM; WATER TEMPERATURES; WET; WET CONDITIONS; WHEEL LOADS; WHEEL/RAIL;

DEFORMATION; FRICTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RAILS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPERATURE; TRIBOLOGY; VEHICLE WHEELS; WHEELS;

ADHESION;

EID: 84871299137     PISSN: 00339008     EISSN: 18801765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2219/rtriqr.53.223     Document Type: Article

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