• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.68-73
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• 1997

The adhesion between wheel and rail plays an important role in the braking performance of trains. Though there have been numerous studies on the characteristics of adhesion phenomenon, a general understanding from the physical point of view is still lacking. In this work, the adhesion mechanism between wheel and rail was investigated by studying the mechanisms of pure rolling and sliding experiments. Tests were performed under various conditions to determine the physical phenomenon responsible for adhesion between wheel and rail. The results of this study is expected to aid in improving the braking performance of trains.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.1285-1286
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• 2012

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1999.07a
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• pp.130-133
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• 1999

It is one of the most effective methods for improving the performance of electric railway vehicles to make better the wheel-railway adhesion characteristics. The purpose of this paper is to develop the equivalent reduction machine to experiment on the adhesion system. The experiment system makes it possible to change the wheel-rail adhesion force with various adhesion parameters, and therewith to test the adhesion control system with the reduction machine in a laboratory.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.150-156
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• 2006

It is one of the most effective methods for improving the performance of electric railway vehicles to make better the wheel-rail adhesion characteristics. To study adhesion characteristic is to develop the equivalent reduction machine to experiment on the adhesion system. The experiment system makes it possible to change the wheel-rail adhesion force with various adhesion parameters, and therewith to test the adhesion control system with the reduction machine in a laboratory. In this paper, for improving adhesion performance shows actually control methods.

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.501-506
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• 2018

With the recent remarkable improvements in the average speeds of contemporary trains, a necessity has arisen for the development of new friction modifiers to improve adhesion characteristics at the wheel-rail interface. The friction modifier must be designed to reduce slippage or sliding of the trains' wheels on the rails under conditions of rapid acceleration or braking without excessive rolling contact wear. In this study, a novel composite material consisting of metal, ceramic, and polymer is proposed as a friction modifier to improve adhesion between wheels and rails. A blend of Al-6Cu-0.5Mg metallic powder, $Al_2O_3$ ceramic powder, and Bakelite-based polymer in various weight-fractions is hot-pressed at $150^{\circ}C$ to form a bulk composite material. Variation in the adhesion coefficient is evaluated using a high-speed wheel-rail friction tester, with and without application of the composite friction modifier, under both dry and wet conditions. The effect of varying the weighting fractions of metal and ceramic friction powders is detailed in the paper.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.1436-1438
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• 2000

It is one of the most effective methods for improving the performance of electric railway vehicles to make better the wheel-rail adhesion characteristics. To study adhesion characteristic is to develop the equivalent reduction machine to experiment on the adhesion system. The experiment system makes it possible to change the wheel-rail adhesion force with various adhesion parameters, and therewith to test the adhesion control system with the reduction machine in a laboratory. In this paper, for improving adhesion performance shows actually control methods.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2006.11b
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• pp.659-664
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• 2006

It is one of the most effective method for improving the performance of electric railway vehicles to make better the wheel-rail adhesion characteristics. To study adhesion characteristic is to develop the equivalent reduction machine to experiment on the adhesion system. The experiment system makes it possible to change the wheel-rail adhesion force with various adhesion parameters, and therewith to test the adhesion control system with the reduction machine in a laboratory. In this paper for improving adhesion performance show actually control methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.507-512
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• 2003

The railroad is a means of large transportation which has many latents such as a safety and a regularity. That is a results from various confidential performance tests and evaluations of the system. The railroad system consist of various subsystems - vehicle, power supply, signal, communications, track structures, operations, etc. Among them, as an item of safety evaluation there is a measurement of wheel/rail force, so called a measurement of derailment coefficient. This is a very important item because a derailment of a train will bring about a big accident. Especially it is more important in high speed rail of which operation speed is over two times as fast as existing rail. In this paper, it is introduced to preprocess the wheelset for measuring wheel/rail force of high speed rail, such as to treat a measuring wheelset, its finite element analysis, adhesion of strain gauges and static toad test, running test result of main line.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1995.06b
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• pp.7-13
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• 1995

현재 교통인구 비중에 큰 비중을 차지하고 있는 철도 차량은 기술의 발전으로 인한 고속화에 성공하여 300km/h대의 속도를 달성하기에 이르렀다. 열차가 고속화됨으로 인하여 열차 주행시 운동에너지가 더욱 커졌고 이를 소산하기 위한 제동 역시 더욱 중요하게 되었다. 열차의 제동시 중요한 점은 wheel의 skidding을 방지함으로 wheel의 편마멸을 줄이는 것이며 이를 위해선 제동장치의 설계시 wheel과 rail간의 점착현상의 이해가 필수적이다. 제동력이 점착력보다 클 경우는 skidding이 발생하며 제동력이 점착력보다 작은 경우는 충분한 제덩을 하지 못한다는 것을 의미한다. 그러므로 열차의 제동장치를 설계함에 있어서 점착계수는 필수적인 요소가 되었으며 미국, 일본, 독일 등의 선진 각국에서는 점착계수를 측정하여 그 특성을 파악하려는 실험이 실험실 및 실차 차원에서 많이 행하여졌다. 각각 다른 접척조건, 속도 등에 따른 실험이 진행되어 왔으나 각 연구의 결과는 조금씩 다른 결향을 나타내었고, 점착현상에 관한 물리적인 설명은 못하고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 wheel과 rail의 접촉인 경우에 있어 점착현상의 변화를 속도, 하중, 접촉조건에 따른다고 보고 점착현상의 특성을 각각 sliding, pure rolling실험을 통해 파악하고 기타 참고문헌에서 발표된 점착계수와 비교하여 물리적으로 이해하고자 하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.32 no.7
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• pp.603-609
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• 2015

Railway vehicles driven by wheels obtain force required for propulsion and braking by adhesive force between wheels and rails, this adhesive force is determined by multiplying adhesion coefficient of the friction surface by the applied axle load. Because the adhesion coefficient has a peak at certain slip velocity, it is important to determine the maximum values of the friction coefficient on the contact area. But this adhesive phenomenon is not clearly examined or analyzed. Thus we have developed new test procedure using the scaled adhesion test-bench for analyzing of the adhesion coefficient between wheel and rail. This adhesion test equipment is an experimental device that contacts mutually with twin disc which are equivalent to wheels and rails of railway vehicles.