Wheel/Rail Tangential Contact Stress Evaluation by Means Of the Modified Strip Method

  • Tomas Lack
  • Juraj Gerlici
Keywords: FASTSIM, FASTSTRIP, modified Strip method, wheel/rail contact, contact tangential stress evaluation, optimized computation procedure

Abstract

The article deals with the way of calculating tangential stresses over non-elliptical contact patch where Kalker’s simplified method FASTSIM can be used advantageously. This method named FASTSTRIP is adapted for non-elliptical contact area calculated by means of the Strip method. This method is almost as quick as FASTSIM and the results are similar to the CONTACT results. This method may be useful for rail vehicles in track dynamics computation.

Author Biographies

Tomas Lack

Department of Transport and Handling Machines, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zilina, Slovakia

Juraj Gerlici

Department of Transport and Handling Machines, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zilina, Slovakia

Published
2014-10-31
How to Cite
Lack, T., & Gerlici, J. (2014). Wheel/Rail Tangential Contact Stress Evaluation by Means Of the Modified Strip Method. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 16(3A), 33-39. Retrieved from http://journals.uniza.sk/index.php/communications/article/view/541
Issue
Vol 16 No 3A (2014)
Section
Articles