Publication detail
The low adhesion problem: The effect of environmental conditions on adhesion in rolling-sliding contact
GALAS, R. OMASTA, M. SHI, L. DING, H. WANG, W. HARTL, M. KŘUPKA, I.
Czech title
Problém nízké adheze: vliv environmentálních podmínek na adhezi v kontaktu kola a kolejnice
English title
The low adhesion problem: The effect of environmental conditions on adhesion in rolling-sliding contact
Type
journal article in Web of Science
Language
en
Original abstract
Low adhesion problem is one of the major problems for railways all over the world because this phenomenon can occur anytime and anywhere. To investigate when poor adhesion conditions can be expected in real operation, a ball-on-disc tribometer with a climate chamber was employed to simulate rolling-sliding contact under various environmental conditions. Clean and contaminated discs with leaf extract were used to simulate different surface conditions. Results indicate that contact operating under rolling-sliding conditions is more prone to the occurrence of low adhesion than found by others for pure sliding contact. Very low adhesion (≤0.05) were identified for contaminated and oxidized specimens operating under humid and wet conditions. For clean surfaces, low adhesion (≤0.15) were found under dew conditions.
Czech abstract
Fenomén nízké adheze představuje celosvětový problém v oblasti kolejové dopravy. Důvodem je zejména to, že nízká adheze může nastat kdekoliv a kdykoliv. Cílem této studie je získat analytické závislosti, které bude možné využít pro predikci nízké adheze v reálném provozu. Pro tento účel byl využit tribometr v konfiguraci ball-on-disc, který je vybaven klimatickou komorou umožňující simulovat různé environmentální podmínky v kontaktu. Při experimentech byly využity dva typy disků a to disk čistý a disk kontaminovaný listovým extraktem. Výsledky ukazují, že kontakt v konfiguraci ball-on-disc je obecně mnohem více náchylný na výskyt nízké adheze, než bylo doposud publikováno pro kontakt provozovaný za podmínek čistého skluzu. Pro kontaminované a zoxidované povrchy byla při vysoké hladině vlhkosti a při kontaminaci vodou pozorována velmi nízká adheze (≤0.05). V případě čistého disku (povrchu) byla pozorována pouze nízká adheze (≤0.15), a to za podmínek odpovídající rosnému bodu.
English abstract
Low adhesion problem is one of the major problems for railways all over the world because this phenomenon can occur anytime and anywhere. To investigate when poor adhesion conditions can be expected in real operation, a ball-on-disc tribometer with a climate chamber was employed to simulate rolling-sliding contact under various environmental conditions. Clean and contaminated discs with leaf extract were used to simulate different surface conditions. Results indicate that contact operating under rolling-sliding conditions is more prone to the occurrence of low adhesion than found by others for pure sliding contact. Very low adhesion (≤0.05) were identified for contaminated and oxidized specimens operating under humid and wet conditions. For clean surfaces, low adhesion (≤0.15) were found under dew conditions.
Keywords in Czech
Nízka adheze, Tribologie kontaktu kola a kolejnice, Environmentální podmínky, Kontaminovaný kontakt
Keywords in English
Low adhesion; Wheel-rail tribology; Environmental conditions; Contaminated contact
Released
18.11.2020
Publisher
Elsevier
Location
Nizozemsko
ISSN
0301-679X
Volume
151
Number
11
Pages from–to
106521–106531
Pages count
11
BIBTEX
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author="Radovan {Galas} and Milan {Omasta} and Lu-bing {Shi} and Haohao {Ding} and Ivan {Křupka} and Martin {Hartl} and Wenjian {Wang},
title="The low adhesion problem: The effect of environmental conditions on adhesion in rolling-sliding contact",
year="2020",
volume="151",
number="11",
month="November",
pages="106521--106531",
publisher="Elsevier",
address="Nizozemsko",
issn="0301-679X"
}