Polygonisation of railway wheels: a critical review

G Tao, Z Wen, X Jin, X Yang - Railway engineering science, 2020 - Springer
Polygonisation is a common nonuniform wear phenomenon occurring in railway vehicle
wheels and has a severe impact on the vehicle–track system, ride comfort, and lineside …

Out-of-round railway wheels and polygonisation

S Iwnicki, JCO Nielsen, G Tao - Vehicle System Dynamics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Out-of-roundness in railway wheels, in particular polygonal wear resulting in regular, multi-
lobed, out-of-round wheels, has become a significant problem in recent years. It is of …

Fatigue life assessment methods for railway vehicle bogie frames

R Xiu, M Spiryagin, Q Wu, S Yang, Y Liu - Engineering Failure Analysis, 2020 - Elsevier
The fatigue life of bogie frames directly determines railway vehicles' reliability and safety.
Assessing bogie frame fatigue life is a significant requirement for railway vehicle designs …

Wheel/rail dynamic interaction induced by polygonal wear of locomotive wheels

Y Yang, L Ling, C Wang, Z Liu, K Wang… - Vehicle System …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Serious wheel polygonal wear usually causes drastic wheel/rail interactions, which threats
the running safety of railway vehicles. This paper presents an investigation into the effect of …

Fatigue life assessment of bogie frames in high-speed railway vehicles considering gear meshing

F Guo, SC Wu, JX Liu, W Zhang, QB Qin… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Railway welded bogie is usually subjected to extremely complex fatigue loads, producing
huge failure hazard. However, only external excitations from the wheel-rail system are …

The initiation mechanism and distribution rule of wheel high-order polygonal wear on high-speed railway

C Ma, L Gao, R Cui, T Xin - Engineering Failure Analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
The wheel high-order polygonal wear leads to strong vibration/noise and deterioration of
railway systems, whose distribution is closely related to the seasonality and wheelset …

A simulation investigation on the effect of wheel-polygonal wear on dynamic vibration characteristics of the axle-box system

X Liao, C Yi, Y Zhang, Z Chen, F Ou, J Lin - Engineering Failure Analysis, 2022 - Elsevier
With the increasing speed of high-speed trains and the deteriorating operation environment
of axle-box system, the dynamic performance of axle-box bearing directly affects the stability …

Evolution analysis of wheel polygon wear considering the effect of interharmonics in electrical traction drive system

B Lu, Y Song, Z Liu, G Tao, X Wang, Q Zhang… - Mechanism and Machine …, 2024 - Elsevier
The formation and development of wheel polygon wear (WPW) present significant
challenges to the safety of railway vehicle operations. It is widely accepted that WPW occurs …

An investigation into the fatigue failure of metro vehicle bogie frame

B Wang, S Xie, C Jiang, Q Song, S Sun… - Engineering Failure …, 2020 - Elsevier
Metro vehicle bogie frame is usually subjected to complex external excitations. The fatigue
damage accumulation of bogie frame is induced by multiple elements and may even lead to …

On the formation mechanism of high-order polygonal wear of metro train wheels: Experiment and simulation

X Yang, G Tao, W Li, Z Wen - Engineering Failure Analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
Severe high-order polygonal wear has been found on metro train wheels of one metro line
in China, which causes considerable vibration of vehicle components and disturbing interior …