Journal article
On the Contact Search Algorithms for Wheel/Rail Contact Problems
Journal of computational and nonlinear dynamics, Vol.4(4), pp.1-7
10/01/2009
DOI: 10.1115/1.3187211
Abstract
In this investigation, contact search algorithms for the analysis of wheel/rail contact problems are discussed, and the on-line and off-line hybrid contact search method is developed for multibody railroad vehicle dynamics simulations using the elastic contact formulation. In the hybrid algorithm developed in this investigation, the off-line search that can be effectively used for the tread contact is switched to the on-line search when the contact point is jumped to the flange region. In the two-point contact scenarios encountered in curve negotiations, the on-line search is used for both tread and flange contacts to determine the two-point contact configuration. By so doing, contact points on the flange region given by the off-line tabular search are never used, but rather used as an initial estimate for the online iterative procedure for improving the numerical convergence. Furthermore, the continual on-line detection of the second point of contact is replaced with a simple table look-up. It is demonstrated by several numerical examples that include flange climb and curve negotiation scenarios that the proposed hybrid contact search algorithm can be effectively used for modeling wheel/rail contacts in the analysis of general multibody railroad vehicle dynamics.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- On the Contact Search Algorithms for Wheel/Rail Contact Problems
- Creators
- Hiroyuki Sugiyama - Tokyo University of ScienceYoshihiro Suda - The University of Tokyo
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of computational and nonlinear dynamics, Vol.4(4), pp.1-7
- Publisher
- ASME
- DOI
- 10.1115/1.3187211
- ISSN
- 1555-1415
- eISSN
- 1555-1423
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2009
- Academic Unit
- Mechanical Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984195164202771
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