Metallurgical investigation of transverse defects in worn rails in service

Wear

Volumn 191, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 141-148

  Sugino, K ^a   Kageyama, H ^a   Kuroki, T ^a   Urashima, C ^a   Kikuchi, A ^a  

^a NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Inclusion; Rail; Shell; Stress analysis; Transverse defects (or detail fracture)

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; METALLURGY; RAILS; TRANSVERSE; WEAR;

CRACK INITIATION; CRACKS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; METALLURGY; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL LINER CRACKS (CLC); RAIL HEADS; TRANSVERSE DEFECTS;

RAILROAD TRACKS;

EID: 0029656808     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0043-1648(95)06745-0     Document Type: Article

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