The development of numerical models able to compute the wheel and rail profile wear is
essential to improve the scheduling of maintenance operations required to restore the …

The prediction of wheel/rail rolling contact fatigue (RCF) crack initiation during railway
operations is an important task. Since RCF crack evolution is influenced by many factors, its …

When compared with road traffic, railway transportation is safer, more comfortable, less
polluting and presents less energy consumption per passenger/km. When compared with …

Wear of wheel profiles is a common degradation process that significantly impacts the
reliability of wheelsets. In this study, a conditional bivariate Gamma process is constructed to …

Wheel–rail interface management is imperative to railway operation and its maintenance
represents a major share of the total maintenance cost. In general, the course of events …

Railway crossings are subjected to a severe load environment leading to damage and
degradation of rail profiles. The damage is the result of the high magnitudes of contact …

Wheel wear appears throughout the entire operating life of railway vehicles. Lots of
researchers have studied wheel wear during constant-speed and long-distance operation …

Environmental factors, like seasonality, have been proved to exert significant impact on
reliability of China high-speed rail train wheels in this article. Most studies on polygonization …

The switch and crossing (S&C) is one of the most important parts of the railway infrastructure
network due to its significant influence on traffic delays and maintenance costs. Two central …

Wear modelling of train wheels has long been an important research topic; both physics-
based and data-based methods have some weaknesses. To bridge the gap between them …