Mechanics and Fatigue in Wheel/Rail Contact
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Mechanics and Fatigue in Wheel/Rail Contact

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  2. English
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Mechanics and Fatigue in Wheel/Rail Contact

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These proceedings demonstrate the increasing interest and importance of contact mechanics and wear to the railway industry. The 27 contributions succeed in sustaining a balance between mechanics and metallurgy, theory and practice, and will be of considerable interest to those engaged in research, as well as practising engineers.

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Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780444887740
eBook ISBN
9780444599773
Topic
Technology & Engineering
Subtopic
Engineering General
Index
Technology & Engineering

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Mechanics and Fatigue in Wheel/Rail Contact
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Sponsors and Committees
  7. Chapter 1. Plastic flow and shakedown of the rail surface in repeated wheel–rail contact
  8. Chapter 2. Effects of non-linear kinematic hardening on plastic deformation and residual stresses in rolling line contact
  9. Chapter 3. Analysis of edge effects on rail-wheel contact
  10. Chapter 4. Contact region fatigue of railway wheels under combined mechanical rolling pressure and thermal brake loading
  11. Chapter 5. The effect of metal removal, steel cleanliness and wheel load on the fatigue life of rail
  12. Chapter 6. Investigation of rolling contact fatigue in a head-hardened rail
  13. Chapter 7. The early detection of rolling–sliding contact fatigue cracks
  14. Chapter 8. An analysis of the thermal contributions to railway wheel shelling
  15. Chapter 9. Rolling contact fatigue in railway wheels under high axle loads
  16. Chapter 10. Surface analysis of corrugated rail treads
  17. Chapter 11. Rail corrugations: analytical model and field tests
  18. Chapter 12. The formation of wear patterns on rail tread
  19. Chapter 13. Investigation of rail corrugations on the Baltimore Metro
  20. Chapter 14. Wheelset–track resonance as a possible source of corrugation wear
  21. Chapter 15. Effects of vibration system and rolling conditions on the development of corrugations
  22. Chapter 16. Wheel–rail rolling contact theory
  23. Chapter 17. Tribological studies on adhesion phenomena between wheel and rail at high speeds
  24. Chapter 18. Factors of wheel flats occurrence and preventive measures
  25. Chapter 19. A finite element and fatigue threshold study of shelling in heavy haul rails
  26. Chapter 20. Shear mode crack growth and rolling contact fatigue
  27. Chapter 21. Metallurgical improvement of rail for the reduction of rail–wheel contact fatigue failures
  28. Chapter 22. A design methodology for wheel and rail profiles for use on steered railway vehicles
  29. Chapter 23. Prediction of wheel profile wear
  30. Chapter 24. Development of freight car wheel profiles – a case study
  31. Chapter 25. Design of rail head profiles with full use of grinding
  32. Chapter 26. An optimization technique to minimize rail contact stresses
  33. Chapter 27. General discussion (summarised by Dr. S. L. Grassie, Cambridge, U.K.)
  34. Author Index of Volume 144
  35. Subject Index of Volume 144

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