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Title:

A VCCT Approach Of Crack Propagation In Railway Wheels

Authors:

Tamas Mate, Peter T. Zwierczyk

Published in:

 

 

2020). ECMS 2020 Proceedings Edited by: Mike Steglich, Christian Muller, Gaby Neumann, Mathias Walther, European Council for Modeling and Simulation.

 

DOI: http://doi.org/10.7148/2020

ISSN: 2522-2422 (ONLINE)

ISSN: 2522-2414 (PRINT)

ISSN: 2522-2430 (CD-ROM)

 

ISBN: 978-3-937436-68-5
ISBN: 978-3-937436-69-2(CD)

 

Communications of the ECMS , Volume 34, Issue 1, June 2020,

United Kingdom

 

Citation format:

Tamas Mate, Peter T. Zwierczyk (2020). A VCCT Approach Of Crack Propagation In Railway Wheels, ECMS 2020 Proceedings Edited By: Mike Steglich, Christian Mueller, Gaby Neumann, Mathias Walther European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi: 10.7148/2020-0266

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7148/2020-0266

Abstract:

In this paper, Rolling Contact Fatigue (RCF) crack propagation in the case of a railway wheel was studied in the presence of significant thermal loading. The complexity of the phenomena and the several assumptions and boundaries of the existing crack propagation modeling methods induce particular difficulties in the creation of this specific kind of contact problem. The primary purpose of the investigation was to reveal the relevancy of the Virtual Crack Closure Technique (VCCT) to see the further implementation opportunities and capabilities of the technique in solving railway RCF based problems.

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