(Obtaining and) maintaining the optimized wheel/rail interface
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(Obtaining and) maintaining theoptimized wheel/rail interface
Eric E. Magel
Principal Engineer, NRC Canada
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OWRI
1. Contact Mechanics2. Friction Management
Wheel/rail MaterialWheelset Dynamics
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Examples
• Adopting a new wheel profile
• New rail or vehicle procurement
• Implementing a rail grinding program
• Improving lubrication
• Adopting (TOR) friction management
• Noise or vibration abatement
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YOU MUST PLAN, MONITOR ANDVALIDATE
Once you have the optimized wheel/rail profile designs, frictionmanagement etc. how do you implement it?
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Planning
• What is the driving concern/motivation?
– Examples: Wheel and/or rail wear, wheel-rail noise, broken rails
• Set Goals – what does success look like?
Employ or acquire proper tools
• Determine baseline, establish key performanceindicators
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Outline
1. Rail and wheel profiles
2. Rail and wheel surface condition
3. Treating rails and wheels
4. Friction
5. Vehicle performance
6. Track Performance
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1. RAIL AND WHEEL PROFILES
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Rail profiles• Some railroads have a single shape, others have multiple
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Managing rail profiles
• Choose/Install rail that is close to initial shape– E.g. 8” vs 10”, the JK124 story
• Vary gauge of track instead of two tangent railprofiles?
• Pre-grind survey– Profiles: Optical rail measurement, MiniProf, BAR
gauge
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Measuring rail profiles
BAR Gauge& feeler gauge
ftp://ftp.greenwood.dk/miniprof/pdf/MiniProf-BT-brochure-2015.pdf
MiniProf™
https://www.nextsense-worldwide.com/en/industries/railway/rail-cross-profile-measurement.html
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Maintaining Wheels
Vancouver SkytrainAAR1B – narrow flangeSound TransitCylindrical wheel
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Wear Limits
• Flange height or width, hollowing
• Thin rim
• Wheel(set) diameter mismatch
• Ride quality
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Worn Wheels
Recovered BT-3 profile
Unworn BT-3wheel profile
Predicted worn BT-3 wheelFlange worn wheel profile
Fully recovered profile
Unworn wheel profile
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Wheel Profile Measurement
Hand gauges, digital instruments
ftp://ftp.greenwood.dk/miniprof/pdf/MiniProf-Wheel.pdf
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Trending the Effect of Wheel Wear
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2. RAIL AND WHEEL SURFACECONDITION
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Managing rail surface condition
• Rolling Contact Fatigue (RCF): Visual, magparticle, dye penetrant, electromagnetic
• Corrugation: Visual, Straight edge, CAT(corrugation analysis trolley), accelerometersetc.
• Noise
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Magnetic particle
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Electromagnetic Walking Sticks
Sperry walking stick(eddy current
NEWT Lizard(ACFM)
Rohmann Draisine(eddy current)
MRX RSCM(magnetic flux)
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SurfaceCondition
Assessment(MRX)
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Corrugation measuring approaches
Mermec: TechnolineUses eddy currentdisplacement transducers
Technogamma RCMS“3-point versine system”
Wheelset displacement oraxlebox accelerometers
CorrugationAnalysisTrolley
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3. TREATING DAMAGED WHEELSAND RAILS
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Vertical Spindle Grinding
Type 2 rail grinding
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Surface Finish to Avoid
Grinding stone chatter(pressure control)
High grinding pressure causing largegrinding facets.Blueing from low grinding pressure.
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Rail Milling Technology• Non-abrasive rotary cutting process
– Chips cut out of surface
– Heat transfer into chips and tool
• Different machine types and sizesavailable
• Widely used in Europe, Asia andAustralia
• Applied chiefly for correctivemaintenance
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Rail grinding strategy
Corrective (e.g. >60 MGT)
• Less frequent
• More metalremoved each cycle
• Less track covered
• Rail profilesdeteriorate
• Surface damageoften significant
Preventive (e.g. 20 MGT)
• More frequent
• Less metal removedeach cycle
• Covers the systemquicker, maybeseveral times / year
• Rail maintained soalways in goodshape
Preventive Gradual(e.g. 20 MGT)
• More passes thanpreventive to catchup on poor rail
• Almost sameinterval and cyclesas preventive
• Rail shape improvedquickly to reducestress, then catch upon damage
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Maintaining Wheels
• Surface condition
– Rolling contact fatigue (cracking, shelling)
– thermal cracking
– out of round and polygonization
– wheel flats
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Wheel Surface Condition
Visual, eddy current
https://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/wheel-surface-crack-measurement-device-could-offer-25-cost-savings.html
Field side cracks
Flange root cracks
Magnetic fluorescent particle inspection
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Wheel retruing machinesMilling Machine Lathe
https://smtgroup.com/en/railway-wheel-shop-equipment/underfloor-technology/underfloor-wheel-truing-machine-stanray
https://railways.danobatgroup.com/en/underfloor-wheel-lathe
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Wheel retruing machinesMilling Machine
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• Relatively rough surface
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Lathe
• Template or Programmable
• Single point cutting tool
• Lighter cuts, more tooling
• Fine surface possible
• More experience required
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… maintainers who kept detailedwheel condition and maintenancerecords, and actively managed andoptimised their maintenancepractices, achieved significantlybetter wheel life than those whodid not.
Regular inspection andgood record keeping RSSB summary report T963: Improving wheelset life
by better understanding the causes of wheeldamage, July 2019
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4. FRICTION
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Friction• “Is the resistance to motion which is experienced whenever one solid
body slides over another”
– The resistive force is parallel to the direction of motion
– Concepts of “static” and “dynamic” friction coefficients
• more generally: traction force varies with creepage
• Friction depends on the strength of the surfaces (or interface) incompression and shear
• We can modify friction by controlling the shear strength of theinterfacial layer
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36Third-body velocityaccommodation mechanism
• 3 modes– elastic deformation
– shearing
– rolling
• 5 sites– body 1
– screen 1
– layer (third body)
– screen 2
– body 2
3 x 5 = 15 possible velocityaccommodation mechanisms
(After Godet)
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COF – TOR contactRAIN HUMID WEATHER SUNSHINE
no layer thick layer of Fe3O4Fe2O3 and H2O
rate of removal(chemical or mech.)
film (no layer)
oil or greaseinorganic
contaminants(sand, clay, rust)
weaken or strengthenthe layer
COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION0.05 TO 0.7
weaken the layer
organic contaminants(leaves, hydrocarbons)
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38Controlling W/R Friction2 zones of concern
Low Rail High Rail
LubricationTOR-FM
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Systems for Managing Friction
• Wayside– Mechanical and electric
– Dispenser bars
• Vehicle borne– Solid sticks
– Spray systems
– Locomotive dispensing
– Revenue car
From https://www.lbfoster.com/en/market-segments/rail-technologies/solutions/friction-management/technical-support
http://evolution.skf.com/wheel-flange-lubrication-for-railway-systems-3/
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Lubrication
• Wayside Lubricators: criteria for a successful waysideimplementation
– Placement on track (tangent ahead of curve)
– Bar designs (length, #ports), positive displacement pumps,minimize cavitation (e.g. stir paddles), remote monitoring
– Selection of grease : summer versus winter
– Dealing with difficult areas, e.g. embedded track
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Lubrication
Multiple clogged ports
All ports open and lubrication is flowing
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Wheel/rail traction-creepage curve
Field Tests(Logston & Itami 1980)
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Stick-Slip - The prony brake
mg
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Bathtub model of wheel/rail interfacial layer
Inputs and outputsgoverncomposition oflayer andcoefficient offriction on top ofthe rail
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Friction Measurement
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Effectiveness of Friction Management
From P. Sroba et al, Testing of Rail Friction Management on the 377.2 BaltimoreCurve, NRC report #54-A62209-T11-2-AUG05
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The rail tells the story
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Friction Management: Conclusions
• For W/R, friction is controlled by thecharacteristics of the interfacial layer
• Negative friction stick-slip
• Bathtub model - friction control mustovercome all the “natural” taps and drains in asystem.
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5. VEHICLE PERFORMANCE
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Trucks/vehicle performance• TPD – truck performance detector
• WILD – wheel impact load detector
• TBOGI – Bogie Condition Monitor
• WheelScan – wheel profile (and others)measurement
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Wayside Technologies
TBOGIE L/VWILD/Hunting truck detector
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6. TRACK PERFORMANCE
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Monitoring Track Performance
• Amtrak ARMS – Automated RemoteMonitoring System
• ENSCO VTI (Vehicle-track interaction)
• RMetrix – Ride Performance AssessmentSystem
• Instrumented Wheelsets
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54Obtaining optimal wheel/railperformance
• Identify inadequacies in current system– What is driving the change? The performance problem.
– Profiles, friction management, materials, vehicles
• Set goals
• Baseline performance– E.g. wheel/rail wear, noise levels, ride quality
– Need the right tools
• Transition Strategies – e.g. profiles, grinding
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55Maintaining wheel/railperformance
MeasureWear rates,Noise, brokenrails, etc.
MonitorTrending to identifyseasonal issues, poorperformers, trackproblem spots
Correcte.g. cant deficiency,profiles, friction, welds
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Acknowledgements
• Colleagues within NRC
– Rob Caldwell, Daniel Szablewski, Yan Liu
• Many colleagues within the rail industry
– LORAM, LB Foster, Linsinger, ARM, Rohman, KLD,WID, …