A review on wear between railway wheels and rails under environmental conditions

Yi Zhu; Wenjian Wang; Roger Lewis; Wenyi Yan; Stephen R. Lewis; Haohao Ding

doi:10.1115/1.4044464

A review on wear between railway wheels and rails under environmental conditions

Yi Zhu, Wenjian Wang, Roger Lewis, Wenyi Yan, Stephen R. Lewis, Haohao Ding

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

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Abstract

The wheel-rail contact is an open system contact, which is subjected to various environmental conditions, such as temperature, humidity, water, and even leaves. All these environmental factors influence wheel-rail wear. Classical wheel-rail wear has been extensively studied under dry and clean conditions previously. However, with changes in environmental conditions, the wear rate and wear mechanism can change. This paper reviews recent contributions to wheel-rail wear with a special focus on the influence of environmental conditions. The main part includes the basics of wheel-rail wear, experimental methodology, wear and rolling contact fatigue (RCF), and some measures to counter these degradation mechanisms.

Original language	English
Article number	120801
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Tribology
Volume	141
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4044464
Publication status	Published - Dec 2019

Keywords

Contact mechanics
Environmental conditions
Open system contact
Rolling contact fatigue
Rolling fatigue
Stick-slip
Third bodies
Wear
Wheel-rail wear

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