Rail corrugation: Advances in measurement, understanding and treatment

Wear

Volumn 258, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 1224-1234

  Grassie, Stuart L ^a,b  

^a Abbauernring 1   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Rail corrugation; Rail grinding; Rail maintenance; Railways; Roughness measurement

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC LOADS; FRICTION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEED CONTROL; STANDARDS; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

FRICTION MODIFIER; RAIL CORRUGATION; RAIL REPROFILING; WALKING SPEED;

RAILS;

RAILWAY;

EID: 13844275106     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2004.03.066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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