%0 Journal Article %T Investigation of wear mechanism of tread during operation of railway wheels %A Svetlana GUBENKO %A Yuriy PROIDAK %J Transport Problems : an International Scientific Journal %D 2012 %I Silesian University of Technology %X Causes of wear particles formation on railway wheels tread were investigated. Structural factors connecting with plastic deformation, formation of ¡°white layer¡±, and also with non-metallic inclusions and corrosive products of wheel steel, defining wear of railway wheels tread during operation were fixed. %K wear mechanism of railway wheels %K plastic deformation %K formation of ¡°white layer¡± %U http://transportproblems.polsl.pl/pl/Archiwum/2012/zeszyt3/2012t7z3_13.pdf