Reducing the stress-state of the railroad

Railway Track and Structures

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 13-16

  Kalay, Semih ^a   Samuels, John ^a  

^a TTCI ^*

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EID: 0013139742     PISSN: 00339016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
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