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Research on influence of harmonic wear wheel on wheel/rail contact geometry of high-speed train

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Harmonic wear is one of the common wear phenomena of high-speed train wheels. The change of wheel/rail rolling contact geometry leads to unstable characteristics of wheel/rail contact, which directly affects the quality and safety of high-speed train operation. Because wheelset lateral displacement directly affected the wheel/rail contact geometry, in this paper, the UM software was used to establish a high-speed train vehicle-track coupled dynamics simulation model of the CRH2 (China Railway High-speed 2) head car. Lateral displacement of harmonic wear wheel was calculated under different wear condition to analyze the influence of harmonic wear wheels on wheelset lateral displacement. Then according to macroscopic dimension change of the wheel profile from lateral and radial directions of high-speed train induced by harmonic wear wheels, wheel profiles under different wear condition were selected. And wheel/rail contact geometry under different harmonic wear stages was calculated to discuss the influence of harmonic wear wheel on wheel/rail contact geometry. The results show that harmonic order and wave depth of harmonic wear wheel have small influence on the lateral displacement of wheelset, but the influence of wave depth is greater than harmonic order. The average difference of lateral displacement between harmonic wear wheel and no harmonic wear wheel increases with the increase of wave depth and order. In a harmonic wave length, the maximum value of both equivalent conicity and contact angle appear in deepest wave depth. The greater the wave depth, the more obvious the fluctuations, and equivalent conicity changes are less obvious.

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  1. Key Laboratory for Conveyance and Equipment of the Education Ministry of China, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, 330013, China

    Qian Xiao, Zhixiang Luo, Xu Xu & Jifeng Zheng

  2. State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China

    Qian Xiao

  3. Jiangling Motors Corporation, Ltd, Nanchang, 330013, China

    Shu Cheng

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Q. Xiao received his bachelor and master degrees in mechanical engineering from East China Jiaotong University in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in vehicle operation engineering from China Academy of Railway Sciences in 2012. His research interests include wheel-rail interaction of high-speed trains, computer-aided design, and computer-aided engineering.

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Xiao, Q., Luo, Z., Xu, X. et al. Research on influence of harmonic wear wheel on wheel/rail contact geometry of high-speed train. J Mech Sci Technol 33, 537–544 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-019-0107-6

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