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Wheelflats and rail fracture (TM-MF-070)

Last updated on 24 May 2013 3:49

This paper describes an experimental study of impulse load induced transient stresses in railway rails; their potential to propagate existing fatigue cracks in rails by fast fracture and their significance with respect to the measurement of rail steel fracture toughness. This study was part of an ongoing programme of...

Author(s): Cannon D.F.;Sharpe K.A.

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1983

United Kingdom

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