Output details
15 - General Engineering
University of Huddersfield
Article title
A new method for determining wheel–rail multi-point contact
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Vehicle System Dynamics
Article number
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Volume number
49
Issue number
10
First page of article
1533
ISSN of journal
0042-3114
Year of publication
2011
Number of additional authors
2
Additional information
This paper presents a new method for determining the multi-point contact between and railway wheel and the rail based on geometric constraint and elastic penetration. Dynamic simulations have demonstrated that the new method is fast enough to be implemented online in a time-stepping integration of vehicle–track system dynamics and is effective at handling the multi-point contact. It has subsequently been used by researchers in the UK and China to run simulations where rapid changes in geometry (for example at switches) made simulation difficult previously.
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
