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VERSE®: Accuracy with sidewear (RR-TCE-153)

Last updated on 13 August 2014 10:05

A comprehensive auditable record of rail stress free temperature (SFT) is an essential part of Railtrack's safety management system to avoid continuous welded rail (CWR) track buckling in hot weather. Conventional SFT measurement techniques involve cutting the rail. Such destructive measurements are expensive, disruptive and slow. Hence, there is a...

Author(s): Baulk R C

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1998

United Kingdom

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