ABAQUS Tutorial: Stress analysis of rolling contact of a wheel with the UIC60 profile rail

In this training video, modeling the motion of train wheels on rails is taught. The effect of axial force, velocity, and rail gap angle parameters on the distribution of contact and impact stresses is examined.

What you learn…

1. Modeling the cross-section of the rail profile (UIC60) from the image and making a 3D deformable part
2. Importing a 3D part to model
3. Using virtual topology tools to modify geometry and better meshing
4. Applying the material properties, density, elastic, and plastic of steel
5. Applying point mass to a part
6. Using the dynamic explicit  step
7. Using mass scaling to increase the solution speed
8. Selecting suitable and practical outputs
9. Defining behavior and contact characteristics
10. Making a rigid body with a simple method
11. Using Tie constraint and its tips
12. Coupling and how to turn the wheel
13. Applying gravity load
14. Application of boundary conditions (BC)
15. Principled meshing
16. Observing and interpreting the results