Survey of Wheel—Rail Rolling Contact Theory
- 1 September 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Vehicle System Dynamics
- Vol. 8 (4) , 317-358
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00423117908968610
Abstract
This paper describes the theory of frictional rolling contact as far as it is significant for the wheel-rail system. It is divided into two parts. The first part, mostly non-mathematical, contains a historical survey from the times of Carter and Fromm (1926) to the present day, in which all aspects of rolling contact theory are discussed. Included are a quantitative account of the results of Hertz theory (Section 3), and a table of the creepage and spin coefficients. The second part gives a present day account of the simplified theory (Section 4), and of the exact linear and non-linear theory (Section 5). The paper closes with some recommendations for future research, of which the most pressing is a thorough investigation of the accuracy of simplified theory.Keywords
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