Overview
The project pursues the development of new and more precise models that include the friction phenomenon and that, therefore, can be used to obtain wheel-rail contact results as accurate as possible to those being produced in real railway traffic conditions. The project includes theoretical aspects as well experimental work in real tracks.
Funding
Results
The new models are aimed at obtaining more precise results on the wheels and rails wear, the analysis of vehicle stability, lateral forces on rails, risk of derailment, squeal noise, rail corrugation, vehicle curve negotiation, modeling of the conformal contact between rail flank and transition to the flange of the wheel tread, traction and braking limits, adhesion problems, etc.