To attract more customers and compete with other modes of transportation, railway transport
needs to ensure safety, punctuality, high comfort, and low cost; wheel–rail adhesion, ie, the …

Railway vehicles require a certain level of adhesion between wheel and rail to operate
efficiently, reliably, and economically. Different levels of adhesion are needed depending on …

The wheel-rail adhesion characteristics are very important for the safe and stable operation
of vehicles. This railway-specific problem has been studied since the beginning of the …

Rail transportation is regarded as a reliable, quick, and secure mode of transportation. The
wheel-rail contact interaction is crucial to the railway operation since it is responsible for …

Loss of adhesion between a railway wheel and the track has implications for both braking
and traction. Poor adhesion in braking is a safety issue as it leads to extended stopping …

In the field of simulation of railroad vehicles, there are many numerical models to estimate
the interaction forces between the wheel and rail. The main advantage of these models is …

Adhesion between wheels and rails plays an essential role in the safe, efficient, and reliable
operation of a railway network. Particularly under lubricated conditions, which can be a …

The realistic description of the wheel-rail interaction is crucial in railway systems because
the contact forces deeply influence the vehicle dynamics, the wear of the contact surfaces …

The wheel–rail contact is a safety critical interface. Wear, particle emission and adhesion are
all wheel–rail contact phenomena and are discussed here. All three phenomena are …

The forces that occur in the wheel–rail interface significantly affect vehicle dynamics,
especially in the longitudinal direction. Conventionally, the tangential component of the force …