Although numerous investigations have been undertaken to study the impact load between railway wheel and rail in the presence of a single wheel flat, little attention was devoted to the case of multiple flats. In practice, it is not uncommon that one wheel develops more than one flat or each wheel on the same axle has a single flat. In this study an adaptive contact model, a two-dimensional roll-plane vehicle model, and a three-dimensional track model are developed to investigate the wheel-rail impact load due to multiple flats. Unlike the commonly used Hertzian contact model, the adaptive contact model takes into account the asymmetry of the contact patch as the wheel flat enters and leaves the contact patch. Two scenarios of multiple flats are considered in this investigation. One deals with two flats on the same wheel defined by their size and relative position, and the other deals with a single flat on each wheel of the same axle. In each case, the induced impact loads are compared with those due to a single flat. The results suggest that the magnitude of impact force attributed to the second flat entering the contact region is strongly affected by the responses due to the preceding flat, depending upon the flat geometry, relative co-ordinates of the flats and the operating speed. The results further suggest that the length of a flat alone, which is commonly regarded as wheel removal criteria, may not be adequate when multiple flats are present.


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    Title :

    Impact load due to railway wheels with multiple flats predicted using an adaptive contact model


    Contributors:
    Zhu, J.J. (author) / Ahmed, A.K.W. (author) / Rakheja, S. (author) / Hu, Y.S. (author)


    Publication date :

    2009


    Size :

    13 Seiten, 14 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 20 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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