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Welding of improved rail steel cast 3826 (TN-FM-044)

Last updated on 22 November 2013 2:33

Welding Trials have been carried out on rails manufactured from Cast 3826 Improved Rail Steel (1% Silicon). Although flash-welding and metal-arc overlaying gave promising results in the tests described, SkV thermit-welds in this rail gave some indications of inferior fatigue properties to SkV and SmW welds in BS11 rail (as...

Author(s): Ashton M.E.;Cannon D.F.;Hearne M.C.

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1973

United Kingdom

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