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The influence of rail sidewear on derailments (TM-WRI-009)

Last updated on 16 August 2013 3:59

A combined experimental and theoretical study has been carried out to investigate the acceptable limits of rail sidewear with regard to derailment. Full scale derailment tests were conducted to validate a theoretical derailment prediction method, which was then used to study the effect of a wide range of wheel and...

Author(s): Rose K.A.

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1984

United Kingdom

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