An innovative wheel–rail contact model for railway vehicles under degraded adhesion conditions

Multibody System Dynamics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 285-313

  Meli, E ^a   Ridolfi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adhesion recovery; Degraded adhesion; Multibody modelling of railway vehicles; Wheel rail contact

Indexed keywords

END EFFECTORS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; LOCOMOTIVES; RAILROADS; RAILS; VEHICLE WHEELS;

ADHESION COEFFICIENT; DEGRADED ADHESIONS; MULTIBODY APPLICATIONS; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOURS; NUMERICAL EFFICIENCY; RAIL CONTACT; RAILWAY VEHICLES; WHEEL SLIDE PROTECTIONS;

ADHESION;

EID: 84922836209     PISSN: 13845640     EISSN: 1573272X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11044-013-9405-4     Document Type: Article

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