Deterioration mechanisms in the wheel–rail interface with focus on wear prediction: a literature review

R Enblom - Vehicle System Dynamics, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Wheel–rail interface management is imperative to railway operation and its maintenance
represents a major share of the total maintenance cost. In general, the course of events …

Investigation of the influence of rail hardness on the wear of rail and wheel materials under dry conditions (ICRI wear mapping project)

R Lewis, P Christoforou, WJ Wang, A Beagles… - Wear, 2019 - Elsevier
Some railway managers and practitioners fear that introducing premium rail materials will
have a detrimental effect on the wheels of trains that use the line. A review of relevant …

Comparative study of the current-carrying tribological properties of carbon graphite composites with different hardnesses

M Hu, X Liu, C Zhou, D Wang, Q Xiao, X Guan… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
To investigate the effect of sliding speed and electrical current on the current-carrying friction
performance of carbon brushes with different hardnesses. In this paper, two carbon-graphite …

Hardness ratio optimization of HiSi wheel/U71MnG rail tribo-pairs by sliding wear for high-speed train

G Diao, X Shi, X Zhang, Z Wen, X Jin… - Materials Research …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Hardness matching of wheel and rail steels is important for the economic and safe operation
of high-speed trains. A new wheel steel named HiSi has been developed by our group …

[PDF][PDF] Identification of the Best Material Combination Between Wheel and Rail of Railway Vehicle with Minimum Wear Rate

N Tesfamichael - 2015 - scholar.archive.org
Wear is a natural phenomenon that exists when two bodies, which are in contact, perform a
relative motion; this is also true for the wheel and rail of a railway vehicle. This wear is …

[引用][C] Wheel/rail hardness and total “system” wear

M Burstow - Vehicle/Track Sys. Interf. Commit, 2012