TY - JOUR
T1 - Modeling temperature evolution of wheel flat during formation
AU - Alizadeh Otorabad, Hossein
AU - Younesian, Davood
AU - Hosseini Tehrani, Parisa
AU - Sietsma, Jilt
AU - Petrov, Roumen
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - Predicting temperature evolution of sliding bodies plays a key role in many industrial designs. Temperature-dependent material properties, microstructure evolution of material while heating and quenching, and residual stress comprise these factors’ importance. Despite existing theoretical, numerical, and experimental methods for predicting surface temperature of sliding bodies, there are some restrictions relating to each one. This paper aims to present a strategy and numerical method for finding the temperature evolution of sliding bodies with arbitrary geometry of the contact patch. Preserving generality, temperature evolution of sliding railway flat wheels is the main problem of this study. A finite element model (FEM) is developed with ANSYS APDL software (Canonsburg, PA, USA). The model is validated with existing analytical formulas in steady state and transient cases and a good agreement is achieved. Six real cases from full-scale field tests are considered and a comparison is made between the results. As an application of the method, the obtained time-history of surface temperature is applied to a 3D FE model of a flat wheel as a boundary condition.
AB - Predicting temperature evolution of sliding bodies plays a key role in many industrial designs. Temperature-dependent material properties, microstructure evolution of material while heating and quenching, and residual stress comprise these factors’ importance. Despite existing theoretical, numerical, and experimental methods for predicting surface temperature of sliding bodies, there are some restrictions relating to each one. This paper aims to present a strategy and numerical method for finding the temperature evolution of sliding bodies with arbitrary geometry of the contact patch. Preserving generality, temperature evolution of sliding railway flat wheels is the main problem of this study. A finite element model (FEM) is developed with ANSYS APDL software (Canonsburg, PA, USA). The model is validated with existing analytical formulas in steady state and transient cases and a good agreement is achieved. Six real cases from full-scale field tests are considered and a comparison is made between the results. As an application of the method, the obtained time-history of surface temperature is applied to a 3D FE model of a flat wheel as a boundary condition.
KW - Wheel flat
KW - Wheel-rail sliding contact
KW - Temperature evolution
KW - FEM
KW - Moving heat sources
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85062472203&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2019.02.040
DO - 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2019.02.040
M3 - Article
VL - 140
SP - 114
EP - 126
JO - International Journal of Thermal Sciences
JF - International Journal of Thermal Sciences
SN - 1290-0729
ER -