Use of “contact” in Multi-body Vehicle Dynamics
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This paper reports the first results of a new interface between the multi-body simulation software SIMPACK Rail and Kalker’s wheel-rail contact software CONTACT. The main benefit is in the more accurate distributions of shear stress and micro-slip in the contact area, that together form the primary inputs to wear calculations. Further benefits of the interfacing reside in the ability to perform detailed contact analyses within the multi-body framework, and to investigate the importance of fully non-Hertzian calculations in more extreme situations such as derailment and limit-cycle studies.
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