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The technology of rail vehicles consists of three parts: vehicle technology, track technology, and the contact between wheel and rail. This paper, on wheel-rail contact, also consists of three parts: 1. The theory of contact (not necessarily wheel-rail) 2. Algorithms 3. Applications
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Kalker, J.J. (1997). A brief survey of wheel-rail contact Theory, Algorithms, Applications. In: Brøns, M., Bendsøe, M.P., Sørensen, M.P. (eds) Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 96. European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, vol 9. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-96688-9_7
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