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Polygonisation of railway wheels: a critical review

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Gongquan Tao, Zefeng Wen*, Xuesong Jin, Xiaoxuan Yang. Polygonisation of railway wheels: a critical review. Railway Engineering Science, 2020, 28(4): 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40534-020-00222-x.


Fig. 16 Formation process of high-order polygonal wear of metro train wheels [16]: a rail corrugation on the low rail of sharp curves; b residual high-order polygonal wear after wheel re-profiling; c the first bending mode of the wheelset; d proportion of sharp curves; e serious high-order polygonal wear; and f wheel re-profiling with underfloor wheel lathe.