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

Sweden.

numerical prediction

rail-wheel contact

T.] Epsilon

comparison with test rig results

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ARMEC Appl Mech

Sweden.

E.

Vernersson

steel

Sweden.

[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 303-317

Subject Categories

Mechanical Engineering

DOI

10.1243/09544097JRRT343

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10/7/2017