This paper surveys advances in the understanding and modelling of wheel–rail creep
forces. The main focus is placed on tribological aspects, for which significant progress was …

Accurate and efficient contact models for wheel–rail interaction are essential for the study of
the dynamic behaviour of a railway vehicle. Assessment of the contact forces and moments …

Sometimes, railway wheels cannot be re-turned and have to be discarded far before its time
in service due to local defects and severe wear. Laser cladding which deposits a surface …

The main target of the present work is to characterize the effect of the inclusion of natural
sheep wool (SW) into a railway brake block composition and then to compare it to that of a …

This paper proposes a new way of considering wheel–rail contact in multibody systems
simulation that goes beyond the traditional planar constraint and elastic approaches. In this …

Although “film thickness” and “viscosity” represent two of the most important physical
parameters in lubricated tribological contacts, their in situ measurement in tribosystems is …

With existing rail surface defects, third body mediums play an important role in the evolution
of Rolling Contact Fatigue (RCF). This study investigates the effect of water mediums on the …

The adhesion characteristics of railroad wheels against rails were simulated using a sub-
scale wheel/rail configuration. The apparatus consists of a small roller to simulate the …

The real friction coefficients between the rails and the wheels on a 360 t and 10,800 kW
IORE locomotive were measured using the locomotive׳ s in-built traction force measurement …

A computationally efficient engineering model to predict adhesion in rolling contact in the
presence of water is presented which may be implemented in multibody dynamics software …