Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2021, 23(1):B22-B32 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2021.1.B22-B32

Dynamic Properties and Wear Analysis of a Rail Vehicle with Wheels' Self-Lubricating Coatings

Rafał Melnik ORCID...1, Andrzej Chudzikiewicz ORCID...2, Seweryn Koziak ORCID...3, Michał Opala ORCID...3, Ján Dižo ORCID...4
1 Faculty of Computer Science and Food Science, Lomza State University of Applied Sciences, Lomza, Poland
2 Faculty of Transport, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kazimierz Pulaski University of Technology and Humanities in Radom, Radom, Poland
3 Faculty of Transport, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
4 Department of Transport and Handling Machines, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia

The problem of wheel and rail wear in railway transport generates costs of reprofiling and availability of vehicles and infrastructure. One of the possibilities of wear minimizing is decreasing of the friction coefficient in wheel-rail contact by means of lubricants. Such a solution has drawbacks from which the most crucial are: decrease of tractive/braking forces and difficulties with the precise spreading of the lubricant. These disadvantages may be avoided by modern, innovative self-lubricating coatings, applied at the production stage on the wheel flanges. The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of self-lubricating coatings on a rail vehicle's dynamic behaviour, safety against derailment and predicted wheel wear. The numerical study was performed using the wagon multibody model with simulated self-lubricating coating on wheel flanges.

Keywords: rail vehicle; goods wagon; self-lubricating coating; dynamics; multi-body system; safety against derailment; wear

Received: March 31, 2020; Accepted: June 19, 2020; Prepublished online: October 30, 2020; Published: January 4, 2021  Show citation

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Melnik, R., Chudzikiewicz, A., Koziak, S., Opala, M., & Dižo, J. (2021). Dynamic Properties and Wear Analysis of a Rail Vehicle with Wheels' Self-Lubricating Coatings. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 23(1), B22-32. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2021.1.B22-B32
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