Numerical Analysis of Slipping of the Wheel Under Rotation-controlled and Translation-controlled Motion on Railway Tracks
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Numerical Analysis of Slipping of the Wheel Under Rotation-controlled and Translation-controlled Motion on Railway Tracks

1 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
2 University of East London, London, United Kingdom
3 Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji
4 Earthquake Monitoring Center, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
5 Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, India
6 Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, China
7 Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
* Corresponding Author: Pranjal Mandhaniya, [email protected]
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Abstract

There has been recorded differences between a train spulled by a locomotive and a train unit with all the bogies moving simultaneously. This study aims at the slip of wheel on a railway track under these different movements using finite element simulation on a ballasted railway track. The railway track was subjected to a loaded wheel moving at different speeds using two modes: translation-controlled (wagons pulled by locomotive) and rotation-controlled (simultaneously moving bogies) motion. The results were obtained in the form of track vibrations and wheel slip under moving loads at changing speeds and wheel-rail friction. It was concluded that the force transferred to the substructure does not change much based on the tribology of the wheel. However, the reduced wheel-rail friction will cause significant slippage and less efficient traction.

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Numerical Analysis of Slipping of the Wheel Under Rotation-controlled and Translation-controlled Motion on Railway Tracks

Keywords

railway tracks finite element simulation rolling sliding tribology wheel slipping

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Data will be made available on request.

Funding

This work was supported without any funding.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Mandhaniya, P., Alkhateeb, M., Reddy, N. G., Ansari, A., Bhat, M. F., Malik, B. A., & Soni, A. K. (2025). Numerical Analysis of Slipping of the Wheel Under Rotation-controlled and Translation-controlled Motion on Railway Tracks. Sustainable Intelligent Infrastructure, 1(2), 67–73. https://doi.org/10.62762/SII.2025.935609
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  author = {Pranjal Mandhaniya and Mugdad Alkhateeb and Narala Gangadhara Reddy and Abdullah Ansari and Mohmmad Farooq Bhat and Bilal Ahmad Malik and Anish Kumar Soni},
  title = {Numerical Analysis of Slipping of the Wheel Under Rotation-controlled and Translation-controlled Motion on Railway Tracks},
  journal = {Sustainable Intelligent Infrastructure},
  year = {2025},
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  abstract = {There has been recorded differences between a train spulled by a locomotive and a train unit with all the bogies moving simultaneously. This study aims at the slip of wheel on a railway track under these different movements using finite element simulation on a ballasted railway track. The railway track was subjected to a loaded wheel moving at different speeds using two modes: translation-controlled (wagons pulled by locomotive) and rotation-controlled (simultaneously moving bogies) motion. The results were obtained in the form of track vibrations and wheel slip under moving loads at changing speeds and wheel-rail friction. It was concluded that the force transferred to the substructure does not change much based on the tribology of the wheel. However, the reduced wheel-rail friction will cause significant slippage and less efficient traction.},
  keywords = {railway tracks, finite element simulation, rolling, sliding, tribology, wheel slipping},
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