This paper describes the theory of frictional rolling contact as far as it is significant for the wheel-rail system. It is divided into two parts.

    The first part, mostly non-mathematical, contains a historical survey from the times of Carter and Fromm (1926) to the present day, in which all aspects of rolling contact theory are discussed. Included are a quantitative account of the results of Hertz theory (Section 3), and a table of the creepage and spin coefficients.

    The second part gives a present day account of the simplified theory (Section 4), and of the exact linear and non-linear theory (Section 5).

    The paper closes with some recommendations for future research, of which the most pressing is a thorough investigation of the accuracy of simplified theory.


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    Title :

    Survey of Wheel—Rail Rolling Contact Theory


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Vehicle System Dynamics ; 8 , 4 ; 317-358


    Publication date :

    1979-09-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown



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