Rolling contact fatigue prediction for rails and comparisons with test rig results
Journal article, 2010
Tests in a full-scale roller rig, a full-scale linear test rig, and a twin-disc machine are numerically evaluated and compared in terms of rolling contact fatigue loading. From previously evaluated contact patch sizes, a Whler curve relationship is established and matched towards experimentally established fatigue lives. In addition, non-linear finite-element simulations are carried out. Key data needed for the numerical evaluations, as well as difficulties in translating experimental data to numerical models are highlighted. A key parameter here is the interfacial wheel-rail friction. Additional simulations were carried out to establish the latter. However, the conformal contact in the linear test rig makes such simulations very uncertain.
sliding contact
model
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numerical prediction
rail-wheel contact
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comparison with test rig results
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ARMEC Appl Mech
Sweden.
E.
Vernersson
steel
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[Ekberg
Gothenburg
A.] Chalmers Ind
Gothenburg
life
non-linear finite-element simulations
rolling contact fatigue
failure
SE-14296 Gothenburg
Author
Elena Kabo
Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Material and Computational Mechanics
Anders Ekberg
Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Material and Computational Mechanics
Peter Torstensson
Dynamics
Tore V Vernersson
Dynamics
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
0954-4097 (ISSN) 20413017 (eISSN)
Vol. 224 F4 303-317Subject Categories
Mechanical Engineering
DOI
10.1243/09544097JRRT343