This paper describes the prevalent wheel and rail defects related to rail/wheel interface on
heavy haul lines, conventional and advanced materials that are used for rails and wheels …

The wheel-rail contact is an open system contact, which is subjected to various
environmental conditions, such as temperature, humidity, water, and even leaves. All these …

Wheels of the railway vehicle play the important role for driving train through wheel-rail
interaction. Especially wheel profile is one of the most important design factors to rule the …

The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of hardness and contact stress on wear
and damage behavior of wheel and rail materials using a rolling-sliding simulation facility …

The paper describes the Japanese understanding and practice with regard to wheel rail
interface problems and their management. Rolling contact fatigue, especially squat defects …

The interaction between wheel-rail produced defects on each other. Many studies of wear
were done on interaction between the wheel-rail proposed using pin on disk tribometer. The …

The fatigue and wear characteristics of four different steel wheel materials are investigated
in detail by using rolling contact fatigue and wear bench tests on a JD-1 apparatus …

The influence of the decrease in environmental temperature on the wear and tribo-chemical
behaviours of wheel-rail materials was studied. The results indicated that, at all tested …

The topical concerns in wheel-rail tribology are highlighted from a heavy haul railroad
perspective. The paper reviews experimental work carried out mainly over the last 12 years …

Since the 1980s, a very large number of technical papers has been written on the wide
range of factors that are influenced by the wheel–rail contact characteristics. The primary …