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    Evaluation of the hunting behaviour of a railway vehicle in a curve

    Mazzola, Laura / Alfi, Stefano / Bruni, Stefano | SAGE Publications | 2015
    Experimental evidence, as obtained from line tests, shows that, under some circumstances, the level of hunting motion experienced by a ...

    Fatigue assessment of old design axles: Service simulation and life extension

    Mazzola, Laura / Regazzi, Daniele / Beretta, Stefano et al. | SAGE Publications | 2016
    This paper proposes a damage-tolerant approach for ensuring the safe operation of railway axles with an old, non-EN-compliant design, until ...

    Special Issue on prognostics and health monitoring in railways

    Bruni, Stefano / Roberts, Clive | SAGE Publications | 2016

    Special issue on ‘Contact Mechanics 2018’

    Bruni, Stefano | SAGE Publications | 2020

    Novel technology concepts and architecture for on-board condition-based monitoring of railway running gear: The RUN2Rail vision

    Jarillo, Julián Martín / Moreno, Juan / Alfi, Stefano et al. | SAGE Publications | 2021
    affecting the vibrations to which the passengers are exposed. As such, safe and reliable operation, together with a high level of comfort for the ...

    A vision for a lightweight railway wheelset of the future

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    Bruni, Stefano / Mistry, Preetum J / Johnson, Michael S et al. | SAGE Publications | 2022
    Rail vehicle lightweighting using fibre reinforced polymer composite materials is essential for the future of rail. This is recognised as a ...

    An examination of alternative schemes for active and semi-active control of vertical car-body vibration to improve ride comfort

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    Fu, Bin / Bruni, Stefano | SAGE Publications | 2022
    The recent tendency to reduce the weight of car bodies is posing a new challenge to vertical ride quality, since the vibrations related to ...

    Analysis of the causes of severe side wear of the high rail on metro curves by numerical simulation and field investigation

    Spiryagin, Maksym / Stichel, Sebastian / Bruni, Stefano et al. | SAGE Publications | 2024

    Two of the Shanghai metro lines suffered from severe side wear on the high rail, not only in sharp curves but also in large curves, and

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    A twin-disc study of the role of the surface quality achieved by grinding on the wear resistance and rolling contact fatigue behavior of wheel/rail pairs

    Spiryagin, Maksym / Stichel, Sebastian / Bruni, Stefano et al. | SAGE Publications | 2024

    The tribological behavior of wheel and rail material twin-disc samples prepared under laboratory-controlled grinding operations was

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    Application of the extended FASTSIM for non-Hertzian contacts towards the prediction of wear and rolling contact fatigue of wheel/rail systems

    Spiryagin, Maksym / Stichel, Sebastian / Bruni, Stefano et al. | SAGE Publications | 2024

    In this paper, the extension of the FASTSIM algorithm to a SDEC region is implemented and a strategy is proposed to generalise this

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    Lateral instability of three-piece bogie container wagon and effect of the loading distributions

    Spiryagin, Maksym / Stichel, Sebastian / Bruni, Stefano et al. | SAGE Publications | 2024

    Several models of a non-linear rail three-piece bogie container wagon have been developed by using GENSYS software to study the effects

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    Towards time-domain modelling of wheel/rail noise: Effect of the dynamic track model

    Spiryagin, Maksym / Stichel, Sebastian / Bruni, Stefano et al. | SAGE Publications | 2024
    predicting the dynamic interaction of wheel and rail, predicting the associated rolling noise with adequate accuracy is computationally costly. The ...

    Influence of creep force modelling on the non-linear stability of a rail vehicle on tangent and curved tracks

    Zhang, Baoan / Liu, Binbin / Di Gialleonardo, Egidio et al. | SAGE Publications | 2024

    Past works have shown that the application of the non-Hertzian wheel/rail contact in the multibody system simulation may produce non

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    Modelling of rolling contact fatigue under various interface conditions

    Spiryagin, Maksym / Stichel, Sebastian / Bruni, Stefano et al. | SAGE Publications | 2024
    mechanical properties of the friction modifiers (elastic moduli and relaxation times) and its thickness as well as the relative slippage on the ...

    Hunting motion of high-speed emu during cross-line operation: Mechanism and countermeasures

    Spiryagin, Maksym / Stichel, Sebastian / Bruni, Stefano et al. | SAGE Publications | 2024

    During the operation of the Chinese 250 km/h-level EMU, hunting occurs when the EMU crosses from Line B to Line A. Numerous tests and

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    Editorial: Special issue on ‘contact mechanics and wear of rail/wheel systems (CM2022)’

    Spiryagin, Maksym / Stichel, Sebastian / Bruni, Stefano | SAGE Publications | 2024

    Short-pitch corrugation formation on resilient fastener metro tracks explained using rail-bending vibrations within the bogie wheelbase

    Spiryagin, Maksym / Stichel, Sebastian / Bruni, Stefano et al. | SAGE Publications | 2024
    vibration that shortens the life of the vehicle and track components. To address this problem, the formation mechanism of this kind of corrugation ...

    Investigation of probable squat growth from initial surface cracks in rails using a three-dimensional rollover simulation

    Spiryagin, Maksym / Stichel, Sebastian / Bruni, Stefano et al. | SAGE Publications | 2024
    investigation of squats by means of finite element analysis to locate the initiation and propagating mechanisms. In this work, a cyclic three ...

    An innovative small-scale testing procedure to study damage in shoe-braked wheels

    Spiryagin, Maksym / Stichel, Sebastian / Bruni, Stefano et al. | SAGE Publications | 2024

    The diffusion of brake-shoe system has made it necessary to study brake–wheel–rail interactions. This study aims to elucidate this topic

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