Publication detail

Laboratory investigation on the particle-size effects in railway sanding: Comparisons between standard sand and its micro fragments

SHI, L.B. WANG, C. DING, H.H. KVARDA, D. GALAS, R. OMASTA, M. WANG, W.J. LIU, Q.Y. HARTL, M.

English title

Laboratory investigation on the particle-size effects in railway sanding: Comparisons between standard sand and its micro fragments

Type

WoS Article

Language

en

Original abstract

In the railway sanding, the sand particles are firstly crushed into finer fragments in the inlet zone of wheel/rail contact. Therefore, two kinds of particles act in the sanding process: the initial sand with large sizes and the final fragments with micro sizes. To learn which kind of particles is more crucial for the sanding performances, standard sand particles (0.6–2.0 mm) and its micro fragments (0.1–30 μm) were used as two types of adhesion enhancers. The results indicated that the application of micro fragments had advantages on reducing the wear and surface damage, without losing adhesion enhancing capacities compared to the standard sand particles. However, the “fluid-driven” rolling contact fatigue (RCF) damage occurred when the micro fragments were used.

Keywords in English

Railway sanding, Wheel/rail adhesion, Wear and damage, Sand fragments

Released

2020-06-01

Publisher

Elsevier

Location

Nizozemsko

ISSN

0301-679X

Journal

Tribology International

Volume

146

Number

6

Pages from–to

106259–106259

Pages count

12

BIBTEX


@article{BUT162105,
  author="SHI, L.B. and WANG, C. and DING, H.H. and KVARDA, D. and GALAS, R. and OMASTA, M. and WANG, W.J. and LIU, Q.Y. and HARTL, M.",
  title="Laboratory investigation on the particle-size effects in railway sanding: Comparisons between standard sand and its micro fragments",
  journal="Tribology International",
  year="2020",
  volume="146",
  number="6",
  pages="106259--106259",
  doi="10.1016/j.triboint.2020.106259",
  issn="0301-679X",
  url="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301679X20301018"
}