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Inspection of bolt holes: Inspection methods for bolt holes in conversion welded joints (LR-IMS-017)

Last updated on 13 August 2014 10:39

Although bolt holes in conversion-welded rail ends do not serve any useful purpose they are still subject to service stresses and therefore require inspection for fatigue cracking. As shown in Fig.1, in order to inspect the No. 1 boltholes for 'C' and 'D' cracks it is necessary for the...

Author(s): Purdy R.

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1993

United Kingdom

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