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A basic study of wheel/rail abrasion (TN-TRIB-001)

Last updated on 16 August 2013 3:58

The report describes three new laboratory machines which have been built to simulate the contact conditions between wheel and rail. The report presents specimen results obtained from using the machines and comparisons are made of their performance. The results are also compared to earlier experiments using sliding-ball apparatus. Each machine...

Author(s): Beagley T.M.;Jackson D.C.;Pritchard C.;Sewell J.D.W.

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1972

United Kingdom

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