Managing the wheel–rail interface: the Japanese experience

Abstract: Rolling contact fatigue (RCF) defects such as squats or surface shellings; gauge corner cracks or head checks; gauge face wear; rail corrugations which have four types classified from the viewpoints of mechanism and occurrence location; friction/adhesion which are related to wheel flange climb derailment in sharp curves, the stability of high-speed operation and braking performance in the case of wet wheel–rail interface conditions; lubrication to improve the steering performance of bogies to reduce wear and rail corrugations; and grinding to prevent RCF defects and recover wheel–rail contact configuration – there are very important wheel–rail interface issues in Japanese railways, and this chapter describes the current status of Japanese experience as related to them.

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