Development of a wayside measurement system for the evaluation of wheel-rail lateral contact force
Considering the safety against derailment, it is essentially that a vehicle respects the force limits imposed by standards. This paper presents an experimental wayside measurement system for the measurement of the wheel-rail lateral contact force. While there are several well-known solutions for the monitoring of the vertical force, the measurement of the lateral one by means wayside systems is rather uncommon because of overlapping effects that are always present with vertical loads.