Harmon, M. and Lewis, R. orcid.org/0000-0002-4300-0540 (2021) New laboratory methodologies to analyse the top of rail friction modifier performance across different test scales. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 235 (2). pp. 191-200. ISSN 0954-4097
Abstract
Test methodologies originally developed for greases have been adapted to be used for top of rail friction modifiers (TORFMs). This has included: a small-scale benchtop tribometer to measure the tackiness of different TORFMs, attaching an applicator bar to a section of rail and rolling a scaled-wheel through the TORFM applied to the rail head to analyse the effect of different variables on pick-up, and applying TORFM to a full-scale test facility to analyse the scaling effects and the effect of slip, load and speed on pick-up. These methods can be used to measure the relative performance of different TORFMs with respect to how much product is picked up by the wheel. The results have shown that the relative ranking of different TORFMs is the same across the three test scales. This shows that these small-scale test methods that are more suitable for inclusion in test standards could be used to reduce the need for the more time-consuming and expensive larger scale tests, as the relative performance is the same.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 IMechE. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | Rail wheel; wheel–rail contact; wheel–rail interaction; wheel–rail profiles |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Mechanical Engineering (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 25 Feb 2020 13:39 |
Last Modified: | 06 May 2021 16:08 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0954409720913759 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:157667 |