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Wheel/rail contact stress calculations for freightliners (VDYN 93)

Last updated on 25 April 2014 5:00

The "Contact Patch" program has been used to calculate the maximum (peak) stress in the contact patch for the following tyre profiles, wheel diameters and axle load :- (The worn P6 profile, Y25C1_1H, was measured on a Y25 bogie which had run approximately 30,000 miles since the tyres had...

Author(s): Harvey R F

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1989

United Kingdom

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