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Evaluation of Railway Contact Theory by Experiments

Pmj Broersen

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The paper concerns an evaluation of a widely used mathematical model for the description of the wheel-rail forces in the equations of motion of a railway vehicle. By using the measured responses of a bogie on a normal track, actual values for the creep coefficients and the geometrical contact parameters will be determined. Interesting results have been obtained for the influence of the gravitational stiffness.

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Key concepts: Bogie, Stiffness, Track (disk drive), Engineering, Mathematical model, Creep, Contact force, Structural engineering