Spalling and wear behaviors of four kinds of wheel steels with different carbon
concentrationswere investigated on JD-1 wheel-rail simulating testmachine underHertzian contact
condition. The results show tha,t with an increase in carbon concentration, thewear volume ofwheel
decreases; but the degree of spalling increases with larger fragments; and decreasing carbon
concentration alleviate spalling, but increaseswear volume of the specimens.