System Dynamics and Long-Term Behaviour of Railway Vehicles, Track and Subgrade

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIX

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2. The DFG Priority Programme System Dynamics and Long-Term Behaviour of Vehicle, Track and Subgrade

   1. The DFG Priority Programme System Dynamics and Long-Term Behaviour of Vehicle, Track and Subgrade

      • Klaus Knothe, Karl Popp

      Pages 1-14

3. Invited Lectures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Vehicle/Track Interaction Optimisation within Spoornet

      • Robert Fröhling

      Pages 17-34

   3. Active Suspension Technology and its Effect upon Vehicle-Track Interaction

      • Roger Goodall

      Pages 35-50

   4. Rolling-Contact-Fatigue and Wear of Rails: Economic and Technical Aspects

      • Peter Pointner

      Pages 51-62

4. Vehicle Dynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. System Dynamics of Railcars with Radial- and Lateralelastic Wheels

      • Holger Claus, Werner Schiehlen

      Pages 65-84

   3. Distributed Numerical Calculations of Wear in the Wheel-Rail Contact

      • Kurt Frischmuth, Dirk Langemann

      Pages 85-100

   4. Modeling and Simulation of the Mid-Frequency Behaviour of an Elastic Bogie

      • Ingo Kaiser, Karl Popp

      Pages 101-120

   5. Wavy Wear Pattern on the Tread of Railway Wheels

      • Michael Küsel, Eberhard Brommundt

      Pages 121-132

   6. Rotor Dynamics and Irregular Wear of Elastic Wheelsets

      • Thomas Meinders, Peter Meinke

      Pages 133-152

5. Contact, Friction, Wear

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. On the Numerical Analysis of the Wheel-Rail System in Rolling Contact

      • Sabine Damme, Udo Nackenhorst, Anja Wetzel, Bernd W. Zastrau

      Pages 155-174

   3. Experimental Analysis of the Cyclic Deformation and Damage Behavior of Characteristic Wheel and Rail Steels

      • Bernhard Denne, Karl-Heinz Lang, Detlef Löhe

      Pages 175-190

   4. Friction and Wear of Tractive Rolling Contacts

      • Ludger Deters, Steffen Engel, Matthias Proksch

      Pages 191-210

   5. Model-Based Validation within the Rail-Wheel-Subgrade Modeling

      • Dirk Söffker, Svenja Kirchenkamp, Peter C. Müller

      Pages 211-228

6. Track Dynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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   2. Monitoring the Dynamics of Railway Tracks by Means of the Karhunen—Loève—Transformation

      • Ute Feldmann, Edwin Kreuzer, Ferdinand Pinto, Volker Schlegel

      Pages 231-246

   3. Combined Modelling of Discretely Supported Track Models and Subgrade Models — Vertical and Lateral Dynamics

      • Ulf Gerstberger, Klaus Knothe, Yongfang Wu

      Pages 247-264

During the last decades completely new technologies for high speed railway vehicles have been developed. The primary goals have been to increase traction, axle load, and travelling speed, and to guarantee the safety of the passengers. However, new developments have revealed new limitations: settlement and destruction of the ballast and the subgrade lead to deterioration of the track; irregular wear of the wheels causes an increase in overall load and deterioration in passenger comfort; and damage of the running surfaces of the rail and the wheel is becoming more frequent. These problems have been investigated in the Priority Programme SPP 1015 supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), with the goal of better understanding of the dynamic interaction of vehicle and track, and the long-term behavior of the components of the system. The book contains the scientific results of the programme as presented at the concluding colloquium held at University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2002.

• behavior
• damage
• deformation
• fatigue
• friction
• modeling
• numerical modelling
• optimization
• safety
• simulation
• stability
• track response
• traffic
• vehicle dynamics
• vibration

• Institut für Mechanik, Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

  Karl Popp

• Institut B für Mechanik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  Werner Schiehlen

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