Methods of Reducing Wear of Rails / Railway Wheels

Followings are some different techniques and methods for reducing wear of rails.Use of special alloy steel, Good maintenance of track, Reduction of expansion gap, Exchange of inner and outer rail on curve, Use of lubricating oil on the gauge face, By coning of wheel, Reduction of the number of joints, interchanging inner and outer rails, Tilting of rails

Wear in a Wheel/Rail System versus Ratio of Rail to Wheel Hardness

Reducing wheel wear from the perspective of rail track layout optimization - Yunguang Ye, Yu Sun, 2021

PDF) Sliding Wear of Rail and Wheel Steels: Effect of Hardness Ratio, Normal Load and Lubrication

Guardrail Study

Tribological Aspects of Wheel–Rail Contact: A Review of Wear Mechanisms and Effective Factors on Rolling Contact Fatigue

Timeout for Tech: Wheel/Rail Contact and Wheel Load Attenuation - Railway Age

Tribological Aspects of Wheel–Rail Contact: A Review of Wear Mechanisms and Effective Factors on Rolling Contact Fatigue

Equipment for measuring and checking : FCS Rail railway equipment

Rail corrugation and rolling noise generated through wheel-rail contact

13. Wheel flange-wear reducing wheel-tread friction block, R&D

Optimizing wheel profiles and suspensions for railway vehicles operating on specific lines to reduce wheel wear: a case study

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