Title of article :
A Study to Predict the Development of Wear for the Wheel/interface of a Railway Track
Author/Authors :
Matthew Omojola, Temitope Department of Mechanical Engineering - University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria , Ayoola Oke, Sunday Department of Mechanical Engineering - University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Abstract :
The train transport is often confronted with greatly repeated changes in
scope, vehicle travel well-being and transport safety because of the
adjustments of wheel and rail profiles. These problems are frustrating and
threatening. Thus, there is a requirement for an approach to predict the
wear of wheel/rail to tackle these problems. A new theoretical ground is
broken through the build-up of a modified structure motivated by
dimensional analysis to predict the growth of the wheel profile by drawing
on Li et al.’s seminal work on wheel profile. The principal difference
between the current research and Li et al.’s work is the incorporation of
additional wear profile parameters of fatigue strength and design factor. A
framework is then developed for damped and undamped vibration
circumstance with simulation results. The suggested approach could
comparatively predict the needed parameters with the advantage of a wide
scope of parametric coverage. The novel element of the paper is the unique
way of predicting the desired parameters in a wider range of parametric
observations. The probable use of the method is the state functional
railway corporations in developing countries.
Keywords :
Railway , Wheel/rail interface , Wear under vibration , Fatigue strength , Regression analysis
Journal title :
Astroparticle Physics