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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 104
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Edited by: J. Pombo
Paper 103

Rolling Contact Fatigue and Wear of Wheel/Rail Simulation: Wheel Thermomechanical Defects in the Russian Railway

I.G. Goryacheva1, S.M. Zakharov2 and E.V. Torskaya1

1A. Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics of RAS, Moscow, Russia
2JSC, Railway Research Institute, Moscow, Russia

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
I.G. Goryacheva, S.M. Zakharov, E.V. Torskaya, "Rolling Contact Fatigue and Wear of Wheel/Rail Simulation: Wheel Thermomechanical Defects in the Russian Railway", in J. Pombo, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 103, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.104.103
Keywords: railcar wheel, rail, wear, rolling contact fatigue, contact mechanics, simulation, spalling, shelling, thermomechanical damage.

Summary
Major types of freight car wheel defects in the Russian Railways, their types and distributions were a subject of field observations, study and simulation. The modelling of defects initiation was performed for wheel loads, dimensions and materials, characteristic for freight car wheels used on the Russian Railways. Modeling is comprised of the calculation of the shape and the size of the contact patch, and the normal pressure distribution between the wheel tread and the rail running surface for new and worn wheel/rail profiles. Analysis of the internal stresses in the wheel was carried out based on the calculated contact normal and tangential stresses using known solutions for concentrated normal and tangential loads applied to the elastic half-space. Particular attention was given to thermomechanical damage of the wheel tread surface. The influence of thermal stresses on the resistance of the material to withstand cyclic loading were simulated.

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