Predicting the life of steel rails

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

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-58

  Garnham, J E ^a   Franklin, F J ^b   Fletcher, D I ^b   Kapoor, A ^b   Davis, C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crack initiation; Ferrite pearlite steel; Metallurgy; Modelling; Rail; Rolling contact fatigue

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK INITIATION; STEEL METALLURGY; STEEL STRUCTURES; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

FERRITE-PEARLITE STEEL; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE; ROLLING CONTACT FATIGUE (RCF);

RAILS;

EID: 34250824196     PISSN: 09544097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544097JRRT66     Document Type: Article

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