科创中国

Thermal damage caused by frictional heat of rolling-sliding contact is one of the most important failure forms of wheel and rail.Many studies of wheel-rail frictional heating have been devoted to the temperature field,but few literatures focus on wheel-rail thermal stress caused by frictional heating.However,the wheel-rail creepage is one of important influencing factors of the thermal stress.In this paper,a thermo-mechanical coupling model of wheel-rail rolling-sliding contact is developed using thermo-elasto-plastic finite element method.The effect of the wheel-rail elastic creepage on the distribution of heat flux is investigated using the numerical model in which the temperature-dependent material properties are taken into consideration.The moving wheel-rail contact force and the frictional heating are used to simulate the wheel rolling on the rail.The effect of the creepage on the temperature rise,thermal strain,residual stress and residual strain under wheel-rail sliding-rolling contact are investigated.The investigation results show that the thermally affected zone exists mainly in a very thin layer of material near the rail contact surface during the rolling-sliding contact.Both the temperature and thermal strain of rail increase with increasing creepage.The residual stresses induced by the frictional heat in the surface layer of rail appear to be tensile.When the creepage is large,the frictional heat has a significant influence on the residual stresses and residual strains of rail.This paper develops a thermo-mechanical coupling model of wheel-rail rolling-sliding contact,and the obtained results can help to understand the mechanism of wheel/rail frictional thermal fatigue.

Corner contact in gear pair causes vibration and noise,which has attracted many attentions.However,teeth errors and deformation make it difficulty to determine the point situated at corner contact and study the mechanism of teeth impact friction in the current researches.Based on the mechanism of corner contact,the process of corner contact is divided into two stages of impact and scratch,and the calculation model including gear equivalent error-combined deformation is established along the line of action.According to the distributive law,gear equivalent error is synthesized by base pitch error,normal backlash and tooth profile modification on the line of action.The combined tooth compliance of the first point lying in corner contact before the normal path is inversed along the line of action,on basis of the theory of engagement and the curve of tooth synthetic compliance&load-history.Combined secondarily the equivalent error with the combined deflection,the position standard of the point situated at corner contact is probed.Then the impact positions and forces,from the beginning to the end during corner contact before the normal path,are calculated accurately.Due to the above results,the lash model during corner contact is founded,and the impact force and frictional coefficient are quantified.A numerical example is performed and the averaged impact friction coefficient based on the presented calculation method is validated.This research obtains the results which could be referenced to understand the complex mechanism of teeth impact friction and quantitative calculation of the friction force and coefficient,and to gear exact design for tribology.