Abstract: As a fundamental study of the squeal of a railway wheel running on a corrugated rail, frictional experiments using a thin steel disk and a rod and analysis were performed. A disk representing ...

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the squealing mechanism of band brakes in order to develop effective treatments for the reduction or elimination of squeal noise. With increasing ...

Abstract: The separation boundary condition is considered to be comparatively exact in the physical consideration of the supposition. The calculated performance characteristics applied to infinite width ...