Rail life prediction for tramcars under full slip regime

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Title: Rail life prediction for tramcars under full slip regime
Author(s): Desimone, H.; Beretta, S.; Kapoor, A.
Abstract: In a previous paper (1), a method to analyse the rolling contact fatigue damage on a tramcar rail section, starting from the dynamical simulations of it, has been proposed. In the present work, the referred method is applied to obtain the so-called 'ratchetting maps' i.e., the damage region, for a given number of cycles, of a rail section due to the accumulation of plastic flow. Also, the influence of the rail material strength, in terms of its yield shear stress, is analysed.
Publication type: Conference paper
Source: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Fracture (ICF XI), Turin Italy, 20-25 March 2005
Publication year: 2005
Keyword(s): Fatigue damage; Rail materials; Ratchetting maps; Rolling contact fatigue; Tramcars
Publisher: CCI Centro Congressi Internazionale
ISBN: 9788890318801, 8890318805
Publisher URL: http://www.icf11.com/proceeding/TOPIC/topic.htm
Peer reviewed