| Abstract: | The match relationship between rail and wheel was studied by investigating the behavior of the contact fatigue wear in rail/wheel systems. The hardnesses of samples were close or equal to that of the real rail and wheel. Meanwhile the probe of study went further into the condition match and the material match based on the hardness match. The experim ental results show that the wear rate depends on the hardness ratio (HR/ HW) between rail and wheel, and the safe value of HR/HW equals 1 .00-11.20. The fatigue life of materials relies on the operating conditions except hardness. The selected experimental conditions satisfy the condition match except R1 heat-treated out-line. The factor H/S-1/2 is the main element effecting wears in rail steel and wheel steel. The nature of the har dness match is the microstructure match under specified operating conditions. |
