… contact between steel wheel and steel rail means large contact forces transmitted via small
contact … the availability of a general wheel–rail contact module describing fundamentally the …

… the tangential contact forces that develop in the wheel–rail … A wheel-rail contact model for
rail guided vehicles dynamics . … on Advances in Computational Multibody Dynamics . July 1–4 , …

… For the determination of the equivalent ellipse, the resultant contact forces are stored in a …
than Ayasse’s VOCO multibody software with the multi-Hertzian contact developed in Fortran, …

… contact forces. In this work, an innovative semi-analytic procedure for the detection of the
wheel/rail contact … defined full 3D wheel/rail interaction module in a standard multibody model is …

… with nonlinear wheel–rail contact forces are considered for analysing the dynamic interaction
… In general, the multibody dynamics equilibrium equation may include second order and …

… describing the forces arising in the wheel/rail interaction areas. The contact force vector is
… full three-dimensional wheel/rail interaction module in a standard multibody model is not …

… of the global and local contact phenomena (contact forces, position and shape of the …
in SimMechanics, a Matlab toolbox specifically designed for multibody dynamics Citation19. …

… the contact forces at the wheel–rail interface during dynamic analysis. With this model, the
wheel-rail contact points’ … Normal contact forces are computed using Hertz contact theory. With …

… contact problem (in terms of contact forces, position and shape of the contact patch, stresses
and strains), while multibody … a Matlab toolbox specifically designed for multibody dynamics. …

… An elastic force model that allows computing of the normal contact force in the wheel–rail …
and the tangential wheel–rail contact forces are calculated using one of three distinct creep …