Rail base corrosion problem for North American transit systems

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 281-294

  Robles Hernandez F C ^a   Plascencia, G ^b   Koch, Kevin ^a  

^a TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER INC   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Corrosion; DC current; Finite element analysis; Rail steels; Transit systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORROSION; DC MOTORS; MASS TRANSPORTATION; RATE CONSTANTS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

DC CURRENT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; RAIL STEELS; TRANSIT SYSTEMS;

RAILS;

EID: 53849100309     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2008.05.011     Document Type: Article

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