Research Article
Investigation on Wheel-Rail Contact and Damage Behavior in a Flange Bearing Frog with Explicit Finite Element Method
Table 2
Comparison of results of different methods.
| | Approach | Contact patch | Maximum stress | | Semiaxis (mm) | Semiaxis (mm) | Area (mm2) | Vertical (MPa) | Shear (MPa) |
| | CONTACT | 7.36 | 5.65 | 130.6 | 832.1 | 224.1 | | FE method | 7.42 | 5.45 | 127.0 | 846.3 | 236.4 | | Difference with respect to CONTACT (%) | ā0.82 | 3.66 | 2.83 | 1.71 | 5.2 |
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