Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Publication Date

3-2019

Publisher

Elsevier

Source Publication

Engineering Failure Analysis

Source ISSN

1350-6307

Abstract

Due to the improvement of the wear property, rolling contact fatigue including shattered rim and shelling are the main failure causes of the high-speed railway wheels. In this paper, shattered rim and shelling occurred on the service wheels of the China Railway High-speed (CRH) trains were systematically investigated. The recorded data of the last ten years CRH operation indicated that all shattered rims and shelling were detected with serving >106 km (corresponding to the fatigue life 107–109 cycles) which is very-high-cycle fatigue (VHCF). The crack initiationregion of shattered rim located at the depth of 10–25 mm from the tread, while that of shelling located at the depthsurfaces, i.e., similar VHCF features in uniaxial loading including the defect, fish-eye, and crack propagation region and unique VHCF features of the three dimensional crack surface feature, beach bands uniformly distributed in the crack propagation region, absence of fine granular area (FGA). The VHCF model considering the stress distribution, defect size and hardness were applied to discuss the failure mechanism of the shattered rim and shelling.

Comments

Accepted version. Engineering Failure Analysis, Vol. 97 (March 2019): 556-567. DOI. © 2019 Elsevier. Used with permission.

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