Wheel-rail contact modelling and analysis, considering profiles types and lateral displacement

The separation between the contacting surfaces in wheel-rail contact depends on many variables such as wheel and rail profiles, rail inclination, gauge, and lateral displacement. Although the S1002 wheel profile and UIC60 rail seems to be the most common combination in the European rail sector currently, interoperability is still affected by the different values of the rail inclination, which can vary between 1/40, 1/30 and 1/20. This study analyses some particular cases in Romania, where the S78 wheel profile is commonly used, in conjunction with rail types UIC49 and UIC60, with rail inclination 1/20. The paper presents the wheel-rail contact model, developed mainly to analyse and estimate the impact of wheel and rail profile modifications caused by wear, and of lateral displacements, as well. A fast and robust algorithm has been developed and applied to solve the stress state in the general case of non-Hertzian contacts, to enable the analysis of the pressure distributions and determine the influence of these deviations. This elastic-plastic model enables a fast analysis of the influence of different parameters such as load level and contact geometry, including the profiles’ changes due to the wear process.

• 
• Corporate Authors:

  Institut Francais des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR)

  14-20 bd Newton, Cité Descartes, Champs su Marne
  77447 Marne la Vallée,   France  Cedex 2
• Authors:
  • Barbinta, Constantin-Ioan
  • Ulianov, Cristian
  • Franklin, Francis
  • Cretu, Spiridon
• Conference:
  • Transport Research Arena (TRA) 5th Conference: Transport Solutions from Research to Deployment
  • Location: Paris , France
  • Date: 2014-4-14 to 2014-4-17
• Publication Date: 2014-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2014 Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calculation; Mathematical models; Methodology; Rolling contact
• ITRD Terms: 6464: Calculation; 5450: Contact (wheel rail); 6473: Mathematical model; 9102: Method
• Subject Areas: I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01540797
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Files: VTI, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 15 2014 10:38AM