North American axle failure experience

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

Volumn 218, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 293-298

  Lonsdale, C ^a   Stone, D ^b  

^a Standard Steel LLC   (United States)

^b Hunter Holiday Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Axle failures; Failure statistics; Stress

Indexed keywords

COAL; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LOADING; LOADS (FORCES); RAILROADS; STATISTICS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

AXLE FAILURES; AXLE LOADS; FAILURE STATISTICS; IMPACT LOADS;

AXLES;

EID: 14744292483     PISSN: 09544097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/0954409043125941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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