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Wheel-rail Interaction

Wheel-Rail Interaction is a mechanical system-level phenomenon in rail transportation engineering that characterizes the dynamic contact and force exchange between a railway vehicle's wheels and the rail surface, governing traction, guidance, wear, and safety under varying operating conditions.

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Fundamentals of vehicle–track coupled dynamics

Wanming Zhai, Kaiyun Wang, Chengbiao Cai · Vehicle System Dynamics · 2009 · 937 citations

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Modelling of Railway Track and Vehicle/Track Interaction at High Frequencies

Kl. Knothe, Stuart L. Grassie · Vehicle System Dynamics · 1993 · 671 citations

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On the action of a locomotive driving wheel

F W CARTER · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character · 1926 · 528 citations · Full text

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High-speed train–track–bridge dynamic interactions – Part I: theoretical model and numerical simulation

Wanming Zhai, He Xia, Chengbiao Cai et al. · International Journal of Rail Transportation · 2013 · 427 citations

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The Dynamic Response of Railway Track to High Frequency Vertical Excitation

Stuart L. Grassie, R. W. Gregory, Douglas Creese Harrison et al. · Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science · 1982 · 382 citations

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  1. WZ
    Wanming Zhai

    Southwest Jiaotong University, China

    51 publications · 4.2K citations

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  2. JC
    Jens C. O. Nielsen

    Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

    36 publications · 2.9K citations

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  3. XJ
    Xuesong Jin

    Southwest Jiaotong University, China

    41 publications · 2.1K citations

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  4. RL
    Roger Lewis

    University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

    36 publications · 1.8K citations

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  5. DT
    David Thompson

    University of Southampton, United Kingdom

    30 publications · 1.7K citations

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549

  1. Southwest Jiaotong University

    Chengdu, China

    57 h-index

    978 publications

    43.1K citations

  2. Chalmers University of Technology

    Gothenburg, Sweden

    39 h-index

    128 publications

    8.3K citations

  3. Delft University of Technology

    Delft, The Netherlands

    34 h-index

    143 publications

    6.8K citations

  4. University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    26 h-index

    108 publications

    5K citations

  5. Beijing Jiaotong University

    Beijing, China

    26 h-index

    133 publications

    5.3K citations

  6. KTH Royal Institute of Technology

    Stockholm, Sweden

    23 h-index

    71 publications

    3.5K citations

  7. Central Queensland University

    Rockhampton, Australia

    23 h-index

    111 publications

    4.1K citations

  8. University of Florence

    Florence, Italy

    20 h-index

    92 publications

    3.8K citations

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  1. Vehicle System Dynamics

    306 publications · 15.3K citations

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  2. Wear

    155 publications · 9.1K citations

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  4. Journal of Sound and Vibration

    JSV · 48 publications · 3.2K citations

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  5. Tribology International

    28 publications · 1K citations

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