ADHESION AND THE CONTACT SURFACE BETWEEN WHEEL AND RAIL

SILOVE A GEOMETRICKE POMERY VE VZTAHU K ADHEZI VYVOZENE PUSOBENIM KILOVEHO TLAKU

The article contains a description of the history of research into adhesion, and deals with the position in the area of contact between wheel and rail. It also contains observations concerning the correlations between the different principal factors which affect the form and dimensions of the contact surface between wheel and rail, and which determine them in cases when the normal effort is the only outside force. This simplifying hypothesis provides a possibility of constructing mathematical relations on the basis of which it is possible to develop considerations concerning the contact surface under the simultaneous effect of the adhesive weight and the tangential effort. Finally, the author describes the method of establishing, on the one hand, the area of the surface of contact of the wheel and the rail, in the case of a used, and an unused, rail head, and, on the other, the rate and strength of the pressure in the wheel.

• Corporate Authors:

  Vyoska Skola Dporavna

  Moyzesova 20
  Ziline, ZZ Czechoslovakia   
• Authors:
  • Svejnoch, V
• Publication Date: 1973

Language

• Undetermined

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 31 p.
• Serial:
  • VSD A VUD Sbornik Praci
  • Issue Number: 56
  • Publisher: Vyoska Skola Dporavna

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adhesion; Development; Dynamics; History; Railroad rails; Research; Train track dynamics; Wheels
• Uncontrolled Terms: Research and development
• Subject Areas: History; Railroads; Research; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00050589
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Railway Documentation, Selection of
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 24 1976 12:00AM