Rolling contact and fatigue simulations of railway wheels
Dnr:
NAISS 2025/22-206
Type:
NAISS Small Compute
Principal Investigator:
Eric Voortman Landström
Affiliation:
Chalmers tekniska högskola
Start Date:
2025-02-14
End Date:
2026-03-01
Primary Classification:
20301: Applied Mechanics
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Allocation
- Centre Storage at NSC: 500 GiB
- Tetralith at NSC: 10 x 1000 core-h/month
Abstract
FE simulations of rolling contact and fatigue/fracture of braked railway wheels. The aim is to perform the simulations to gather numerical data for validation of the used models, when compared to experimental results.