This paper surveys advances in the understanding and modelling of wheel–rail creep
forces. The main focus is placed on tribological aspects, for which significant progress was …

Accurate and efficient contact models for wheel–rail interaction are essential for the study of
the dynamic behaviour of a railway vehicle. Assessment of the contact forces and moments …

Wear in rolling contact is a complex phenomenon because it is multi-scale and multi-
physical by nature and involves many strongly correlated parameters. It makes the …

The evaluation of creep forces is a complex task and their calculation is a time-consuming
process for multibody simulation (MBS). A methodology of creep forces modelling at large …

This paper proposes a new way of considering wheel–rail contact in multibody systems
simulation that goes beyond the traditional planar constraint and elastic approaches. In this …

Numerical simulation of the behavior of rail vehicles requires a frictional contact model for
the wheel–rail contact forces that must be fast and detailed. A comment on Kalker's original …

In railway dynamics, the interpolation of lookup tables (LUTs) is a procedure utilized to
reduce the computational effort when computing the wheel-rail contact forces. However, the …

This paper presents an approach for assessing the accuracy of different frictional rolling
contact theories. The main characteristic of the approach is that it takes a statistically …

This report describes the usage of the computer program CONTACT for contact mechanical
simulations. CONTACT is an advanced simulation program for the detailed study of …

To improve the understanding of dynamic impact in 1: 9 crossing panel, which is suffering
from rapid surface degradation, detailed modelling and experimental studies are performed …