PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Suchánek, Andrej AU - Harušinec, Jozef TI - The Downhill Braked Railway Wheel Structural Analysis by Means of the ANSYS Multiphysics Program System Package DP - 2015 Nov 1 TA - Manufacturing Technology Journal PG - 945--950 VI - 15 IP - 5 AID - 10.21062/ujep/x.2015/a/1213-2489/MT/15/5/945 IS - 12132489 AB - Article deals with the detection of reduced stress in a braked railway wheel based on thermal transient analysis on virtual models, because they influence the characteristics of the railway wheels. Structural analysis was performed by means of the ANSYS Multiphysics program system package. Thermal transient analysis deals with the detection of temperature fields which are result of braking by brake block. The applied heat flux represents the heat generated by friction of brake block. It is applied to the quarter model because of the acceleration calculation. This analysis simulates two braking with subsequent by cooling. Distribution of the equivalent stress was detected in the cross section railway wheel, at selected points. The input parameters were used from the thermal transient analysis. These equivalent stresses result due to thermal load.