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Fatigue design of rubber springs used in rail vehicle suspensions
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Rubber-to-metal bonded springs are vital antivibration components for rail vehicles as mentioned in this paper, and they are widely used as a primary spring on a rail vehicle fitted at the wheel axle.Abstract:
Rubber-to-metal bonded springs are vital antivibration components for rail vehicles. Metacone rubber springs are widely used as a primary spring on a rail vehicle fitted at the wheel axle b...read more
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An approach to evaluate the service life of rubber springs used in rail vehicle suspensions
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Rubber and rubber-like materials, finite-element analyses and simulations, an addendum: a bibliography (1997?2003)
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Fatigue life predictions of rubber components: Applications to an automobile cradle mount
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Non-Linear Elastic Deformations
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of non-linear elastic systems on a simple geometric model for elastic deformations is discussed, and the authors propose a planar and spatial euler introduction to nonlinear analysis.
Determination of rubber material properties for finite element analysis from actual products
TL;DR: In this article, an approach has been tried to obtain rubber material properties using stiffness measurement in different loading modes from an actual product, which may be used to obtain the rubber parameters for finite element analysis in an engineering design process.
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Effect of loading environment on rubber bolster springs used in railway vehicle bogies
TL;DR: In this article, a finite element analysis was conducted to identify the causes of the degradations of the bolster springs of metro railway vehicles, and the critical areas found from the stress analysis were the same as those exhibited on the actual spring components in service.