Effective Fatigue Evaluation on Rubber Mounts for Rail Vehicles

Figure 9

The profile and the orientation of the effective stress of the sandwich mount. (a) The effective stress profile. (b) The zoomed critical area of the sandwich mount. (c) The effective stress direction at the hot spot of the sandwich mount in the YOZ plane (60.5° from Z). (d) The effective stress direction at the hot spot of the sandwich mount in the XOY plane (90° from X). (e) The effective stress direction at the hot spot of the sandwich mount in the XOZ plane (90° from X).

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