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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-A.2004.28.9.1391

A Study on the Contact Fatigue Life Evaluation for Railway Wheels Considering Residual Stress Variation  

Seo, Jung-Won (한국철도기술연구원)
Goo, Byeong-Choon (한국철도기술연구원)
Choi, Jae-Boong (성균관대학교 기계공학부)
Kim, Young-Jin (성균관대학교 기계공학부)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A / v.28, no.9, 2004 , pp. 1391-1398 More about this Journal
Abstract
Railway wheels and axles belong to the most critical components in railway vehicles. The service conditions of railway vehicles became more severe in recent years due to the increase of speed. Therefore, a more precise evaluation of wheelset life and safety has been requested. Wheel/rail contact fatigue and thermal cracks due to braking heat are two main mechanisms of the railway wheel failure. In this paper, an evaluation procedure for the contact fatigue life of railway wheel is proposed. One of the main sources of the contact zone failure is the residual stress. The residual stress on wheel is formed during the manufacturing process which includes a heat treatment, and then is changed by contact stress developed by wheel/rail contact and thermal stress induced by braking. Also, the cyclic stress history for fatigue analysis is determined by applying finite elements analysis for the moving contact load. The objective of this paper is to estimate fatigue life by considering residual stress due to heat treatment, braking and repeated contact load, respectively.
Keywords
Contact Fatigue; Railway Wheel; Residual Stress;
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