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Elucidating Deterioration due to Wheel-Rail Rolling Contact

Last updated on 19 January 2024 3:39

Dr. Hirotaka Sakai, Senior Researcher of Computational Mechanics, introduces a simulation method " the Wheel-Rail Rolling Contact Simulator", which can continuously reproduce the contact state while solving the force balance between the wheel and rail. The aims of the tests using the simulator are to elucidate the mechanism of deterioration...

Author(s): Hirotaka SAKAI

Organisation(s): Railway Techinical Research Institute (RTRI) ;

2022

Japan

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