Fatigue behaviour of rail steel - A comparison between strain and stress controlled loading

Wear

Volumn 258, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 1187-1193

  Ahlström, Johan ^a   Karlsson, Birger ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Hardening; Hysteresis loops; Life time; Rail; Softening; Steel; Strain control; Strain rate; Stress control

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC LOADS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FATIGUE TESTING; RAILROADS; STEEL; STRAIN; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; STRESS ANALYSIS;

PUSH-PULL LOADING; STRAIN AMPLITUDE; STRESS AMPLITUDE; STRESS CONTROLLED LOADING;

RAILS;

STRESS-STRAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 13844269265     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2004.03.030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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