Wheel/rail rolling contact fatigue - Probe, predict, prevent

Wear

Volumn 314, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 2-12

  Ekberg, Anders ^a   Åkesson, Bengt ^a   Kabo, Elena ^a,b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Qamcom Research and Technology   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Deterioration mechanisms; Numerical modelling; Rail wheel tribology; Rolling contact fatigue

Indexed keywords

DETERIORATION; FRICTION; NUMERICAL MODELS; WHEELS;

DETERIORATION MECHANISM; MULTI-BODY DYNAMIC SIMULATION; PREDICTIVE MODELING; PREDICTIVE MODELS; RAIL-WHEEL TRIBOLOGY; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE; TRAIN-TRACK INTERACTION; WHEEL/RAIL ROLLING CONTACT;

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

EID: 84899066699     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2013.12.004     Document Type: Article

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