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Contact stresses on turned rails (LR-DSU-93-057)

Last updated on 13 August 2014 9:55

When a turned rail is allowed to wear as far into the second gauge comer as it was into the first, the rail head becomes relatively narrow. One of the possible problems associated with such a narrow rail head is that when a wheel is running on the rail crown...

Author(s): Pearce T. G.

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1993

United Kingdom

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