Abstract: In this paper, nonlinear dynamics of a railway wheelset is investigated during kinematic oscillations. Based on the nonlinear differential equations, the notion of nonlinearity factor is introduced, which expresses the ...

Abstract: In this paper, a special type of beam element is developed with three nodes and with only translational degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) at each node. This element can be used effectively to build low degree-of-freedom models of ...