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Modelling of Rolling Contact Fatigue of Rails

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Rail dark spot defect, also termed as squat failure or shelling, is a rolling contact fatigue failure which occurs frequently on the high speed traffic railway rails. The main goal of this study is to develop a computational model for simulation of the squat phenomena on rails in rail-wheel contact. The proposed computational model consists of two parts: (i) Contact Fatigue Crack Initiation (CFCI) and (ii) Contact Fatigue Crack Propagation (CFCP). The results of proposed unified model enable a computational prediction of a probable number of loading cycles that a wheel-rail system can sustain before development of the initial crack in the rail, as well as the number of loading cycles required for a crack to propagate from initial to critical length, when the final fatigue failure (squat) can be expected to occur.

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Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 324-325)

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987-990

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.324-325.987

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November 2006

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Gorazd Fajdiga, Matjaž Šraml, Janez Kramar

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Crack Initiation, Crack Propagation, Fatigue Damage, Numerical Analysis, Squat

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