Glued insulated rail joints tensile and bending tests on joints with 3 different final torques on the nuts (IM-CES-034)

Some 3 years ago, the Research & Development Division carried out bending and combined bending and tensile fatigue tests on a range of established designs of glued insulated rail joints. The work, was written up in Report No. TM CES 40, dated July 1983. One recommendation was that tests...