Wheel – rail friction is a basic phenomenon that enables railway transport running. That friction is accompanied by a wear, that determines wheels durability and reliability. Wear influences strongly the railway transport safety. Wear of railway wheels depends on their working conditions and also on their material. In this paper results of laboratory tests that simulated tribological pair wheel flange – rail side have been presented. The results enabled to determine the influence of selected working conditions i.e. load, sliding distance and velocity, and also material parameters such as chemical composition and hardness on the wear of simulated pair.


    Access

    Download


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Laboratory wear assessment of selected elements of railway transport means


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2007



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




    Railway Transport Means from the Marketing Viewpoint

    Riha, Z. / Hornyak, P. / Kaunas University of Technology | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2012



    Wear of railway tyres

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1911


    Railway: Wear and noise

    Rasmussen, G. / European Acoustics Association / East-European Acoustical Association et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1998