This project is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50375129);Foundation for Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dis-sertation of China (FANEDD) (No. 200248);Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University, China (No. IRT0452).
A coupling thermo-mechanical model of wheel/rail in rolling-sliding contact is put forward using finite element method. The normal contact pressure is idealized as the Hertzian distribution, and the tangential force p...