System Dynamics and Long-Term Behaviour of Railway Vehicles, Track and Subgrade (Hardcover)

The DFG Priority Programme 'System Dynamics and Long-Term Behaviour of Vehicle, Track and Subgrade'.- Invited Lectures.- Vehicle/Track Interaction Optimisation within Spoornet.- Active Suspension Technology and its Effect upon Vehicle-Track Interaction.- Rolling-Contact-Fatigue and Wear of Rails: Economic and Technical Aspects.- Vehicle Dynamics.- System Dynamics of Railcars with Radial- and Lateralelastic Wheels.- Distributed Numerical Calculations of Wear in the Wheel-Rail Contact.- Modeling and Simulation of the Mid-Frequency Behaviour of an Elastic Bogie.- Wavy Wear Pattern on the Tread of Railway Wheels.- Rotor Dynamics and Irregular Wear of Elastic Wheelsets.- Contact, Friction, Wear.- On the Numerical Analysis of the Wheel-Rail System in Rolling Contact.- Experimental Analysis of the Cyclic Deformation and Damage Behavior of Characteristic Wheel and Rail Steels.- Friction and Wear of Tractive Rolling Contacts.- Model-Based Validation within the Rail-Wheel-Subgrade Modeling.- Track Dynamics.- Monitoring the Dynamics of Railway Tracks by Means of the Karhunen-Loeve-Transformation.- Combined Modelling of Discretely Supported Track Models and Subgrade Models - Vertical and Lateral Dynamics.- Measurement and Modelling of Resilient Rubber Rail-Pads.- Model-Based Investigation of the Dynamic Behaviour of Railway Ballast.- The Dynamics of Railway Track and Subgrade with Respect to Deteriorated Sleeper Support.- Subgrade Dynamics.- Numerical Model and Laboratory Tests on Settlement of Ballast Track.- Track Settlement Due to Cyclic Loading with Low Minimum Pressure and Vibrations.- Simulation of the Dynamic Behavior of Bedding-Foundation-Soil in the Time Domain.- Dynamic Behavior of Railway Track Systems Analyzed in Frequency Domain.- Experimental and Numerical Investigations on the Track Stability.- Experimental Investigation and Numerical Modelling of Soils and Ballast under Cyclic and Dynamic Loading.- 3D-Simulation of Dynamic Interaction Between Track and Layered Subground.- Rigid Body Dynamics of Railway Ballast.- A Comparative Study of Results from Numerical Track-Subsoil Calculations.