Abstract: This study uses an elastic-plastic, coupled temperature-displacement finite element model to investigate the effect of rail corrugations on the wheel-rail thermal contact stress and temperature ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the tip characteristics of an oblique crack in the wheel-rail contact problem. The wheel-rail normal contact pressure and interfacial shear stress distributions, and the ...

Abstract: This study employs an elastic-plastic finite element model to investigate the effect of oblique rail surface crack on the wheel-rail contact stress distribution under partial slip rolling conditions. ...

Abstract: For convenience, a horizontally circular curved beam without any attachments is called a “bare” curved beam and the one carrying any attachments is called a “loaded” curved beam, in this paper. For the out-of-plane free ...