OPENING CEREMONY                                                                                                                

The opening ceremony of the Symposium shall be held on Wednesday, October 22, 2008, at 9:00 hours

in Lecture Hall F of the Civil Engineering & Geosciences building of TU Delft on Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN  Delft.

Day 1:    Wednesday, 22 October 2008  
     
     
9:00 - 9:45   Welcome and opening: Tom Scarpas  
    Prof.dr.ir. J.T. Fokkema, Rector Magnificus of TU Delft                     Mrs. ir. C.M. Kalker - Kalkman   
     
9:45 - 10:30   An experimental study of creepage in rolling contact  
    K. L. Johnson, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom  
     
10:30 - 10:50   Coffee break  
     
10:50 - 11:35   Review of Joost Kalker’s Wheel-Rail Contact Theories and Their Implementation in Multibody Codes  
  Khaled E. Zaazaa, ENSCO, Inc., USA  
     
11:35 - 11:55   Survey of Programs on Contact Mechanics by Prof. J.J. Kalker  
  E.A.H. Vollebregt, VORtech Computing, The Netherlands  
     
11:55 - 12:40   Kalker’s algorithm Fastsim solves tangential contact problems with slip dependent friction and friction anisotropy  
    J. Piotrowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland  
     
12:40 - 13:00   Application of contact mechanics to paper transport in copiers and printers  
  L. Saes, Océ Technologies B.V., The Netherlands  
     
13:00 - 14:00   Lunch in PSOR  
     

LECTURE SESSIONS

The lecture sessions shall be held in the Deltares auditorium, starting on Wednesday, October 22, 2008, at 14:00 hours.

The Deltares building is adjacent to the Civil Engineering & Geosciences Building of TU Delft on Stiletjesweg 2, Delft.
Phone: (0)15-2693500.

Day 1:    Wednesday, 22 October 2008   Day 2:    Thursday, 23 October 2008   Day 3:    Friday, 25 October 2008
                   
                   
      Session 2.1   A. Scarpas (Chair)   Session 3.1   C. Vuik (Chair)
        9:00 - 9:45   Numerical methods for algebraic problems from structural mechanics   9:00 - 9:45   Application of nano-Contact Mechanics Methods via AFM to Study the Adhesive Properties of Asphalt Thin-Film Coatings
            C. Vuik, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands       A. T. Pauli, Western Research Institute, USA
                   
      9:45 - 10:30   Prediction of the Vibration Behaviour of Structures with Joints   9:45 - 10:30   Rolling contact at rail top geometry defects: reality and simulation
          L. Gaul, University of Stuttgart, Germany       Z. Li, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
                   
      10:30 - 10:50   Coffee break   10:30 - 10:50   Coffee break
                   
      Session 2.2   A. Scarpas (Chair)   Session 3.2   C. Vuik (Chair)
        10:50 - 11:10   Issues on tyre-road interaction at Vredestein Tyres   10:50 - 11:10   ProRail Research on Wear and Rolling Contact Fatigue Problems in the Railway Switches
          H.E. van Benthem, Vredestein tyres B.V., The Netherlands       I.Y. Shevtsov, ProRail, The Netherlands
                   
        11:10 - 11:55   Experimental Contributions to the Prediction of the Dynamics of Structures with Contact Interfaces   11:10 - 11:55   Friction Control between wheel and rail, -modeling and application-
          D. J. Ewins, Imperial College London, United Kingdom       Yoshihiro Suda, The University of Tokyo, Japan
                   
        11:55 - 12:40   Issues in Tire-Pavement Contact Modelling   11:55 - 12:40   Efficient on-line calculation of the wheel-rail contact forces in multibody dynamics
            M. Kaliske, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany       J. Escalona, University of Seville, Spain
                   
        12:40 - 13:00   Measurement of wheel-rail contact forces   12:40 - 13:00   Some Practical Issues based on Wheel/Rail Rolling Contact
          T. Roeleveld, Lloyd’s Register Rail, The Netherlands       M. Ishida, Railway Technical Research Institute, Tokyo
                   
      13:00 - 14:00   Lunch in Deltares   13:00 - 14:00   Lunch in Deltares
                   
Session 1.1   A.P.S. Selvadurai (Chair)   Session 2.3   K. Willner (Chair)   Session 3.3   A. Schwab (Chair)
14:00 - 14:45   The Delft Semi-Empirical Dynamic Tyre Model   14:00 - 14:45   New mortar/finite element algorithms for large sliding contact analysis   14:00 - 14:45   On Modeling a Rolling Wheel as a Two- or Three-dimensional Process
       H.B. Pacejka, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands          Tod A. Laursen, Duke University, USA       A. Drescher, University of Minnesota, USA
                   
14:45 - 15:30   Some new aspects of 150 years of history of wheel/rail contact mechanics   14:45 - 15:30   A rail roughness growth model for a wheelset with non-steady, non-Hertzian contact   14:45 - 15:30   Dynamic Analysis of Elastic Cylinders in Rolling Contact
    Klaus Knothe, TU Berlin, Germany       G. Xie, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom       E.Keskinen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
                   
15:30 - 15:50   Coffee break   15:30 - 15:50   Coffee break   15:30 - 15:50   Coffee break
                   
Session 1.2   A.P.S. Selvadurai (Chair)   Session 2.4   K. Willner (Chair)   Session 3.4   A. Schwab (Chair)
15:50 - 16:35   Constitutive Contact Laws in Structural Dynamics   15:50 - 16:35   Multi-Hertzian Method for simulating Conformal Wheel-Rail Pairs - Application to S1002/UIC60 Pair - Proposal of a Physical Laboratory Test for assessing the Method   15:50 - 16:35   Fragmentation of Ice During Contact
    K. Willner, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany       J. P. Pascal, France       A.P.S. Selvadurai, McGill University, Canada
                   
16:35 - 17:20   The role of contact mechanical model on the overall behaviour of granular materials   16:35 - 17:20   Modeling of Worn Profile Evolution and Contact Fatigue in Rail/Wheel Interaction   16:35 - 16:55   Challenge of tire Contact Mechanics
    F. Nicot, Grenoble, France          I.G.Goryacheva, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia       T. Fullop, Goodyear Technical Center, Luxembourg
                   
17:20 - 18:05   Rolling Contact Mechanics research at The Technical University of Denmark   17:20 - 18:05   Numerical studies on various corrugation development mechanisms in a rolling disk on flexible rail   16:55 - 17:25   Closure: Tom Scarpas
  Hans True, TU Denmark, Denmark          Yoshiaki Terumichi, Sophia University, Japan        
                   
19:00   Visit to Kalker's house                
                   
                   
20:00   Dinner at Schaapskooi   19:30   Dinner at Prinsen Kelder   17:30 - 23:00   Boat tour - Symposium dinner

 

 
 
 

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