The ‘simple double-elliptical contact’ (SDEC) approach by Piotrowski et al. [The Kalker book of tables for non-Hertzian contact of wheel and rail. Vehicle Syst Dyn. 2017;55:875–901] generates a-symmetrical contact patches in an elegant way. This allows to extend the table-based approach for the wheel–rail creep force calculation towards non-Hertzian contact geometry. This is an important line of research, because FASTSIM is intricate for non-Hertzian contacts, whereas CONTACT requires long calculation times.

    Here, we comment on the further motivation that's provided for the approach. According to the authors, ‘the spin creepage generates longitudinal creep force in non-symmetric, non-elliptical contacts’, which is ‘completely lost’ when using elliptical regularisation. We demonstrate that this mainly depends on the choice of contact origin, and that the interaction is much reduced if different choices are made. This suggests that elliptical regularisation may be viable still, if the details are properly worked out. Furthermore, we introduce the spin center and the free-rolling position as means to extend the table-based approach towards more general non-Hertzian circumstances.


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    Title :

    Comments on ‘the Kalker book of tables for non-Hertzian contact of wheel and rail’


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    Published in:

    Vehicle System Dynamics ; 56 , 9 ; 1451-1459


    Publication date :

    2018-09-02


    Size :

    9 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




    The Kalker book of tables for non-Hertzian contact of wheel and rail

    Piotrowski, Jerzy / Liu, Binbin / Bruni, Stefano | Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2017



    Reply to comments on ‘The Kalker book of tables for non-Hertzian contact of wheel and rail’ by E. A. H. Vollebregt

    Piotrowski, Jerzy / Bruni, Stefano / Liu, Binbin | Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2018