On Heavy-Haul Wheel Damages using Vehicle Dynamics Simulation

• Main Author: Hossein Nia, Saeed
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: KTH, Spårfordon 2017
• Subjects: wear; RCF; rolling contact; traction; braking; heavy-haul; FASTSIM; FaStrip; Engineering and Technology; Teknik och teknologier; Narvik; Norway; Luleå
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-220344

Maintenance cost is one of the important issues in railway heavy-haul operations. In most of the cases, these costs are majorly referring to reprofiling and changing the wheels of the locomotives and the wagons. The main reason of the wheel damages is usually severe wear and/or surface initiated rol...