Artigo Revisado por pares

Prediction of rail corrugation using a rotating flexible wheelset coupled with a flexible track model and a non-Hertzian/non-steady contact model

2011; Elsevier BV; Volume: 330; Issue: 18-19 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jsv.2011.03.032

ISSN

1095-8568

Autores

Luis Baeza, Paloma Vila, Gang Xie, Simon Iwnicki,

Tópico(s)

Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research

Resumo

This paper presents a model for simulating vehicle–track interaction at high frequencies for investigations of rail roughness growth. The dynamic interaction model developed employs a substructuring technique and the whole system consists of a number of substructures that can be modelled independently. The systems are coupled through the forces at the wheel–rail contact and the railpad. A coupled, rotating flexible wheelset, a flexible track model and a non-Hertzian/non-steady contact model have been implemented and results are presented here for a free wheelset on a symmetrical track system with initial random and sinusoidal roughness. Both rigid and flexible wheelsets are considered.

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