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The effect of geometric features on multi-axial fatigue behaviour of aluminothermic rail welds

Last updated on 15 August 2014 4:25

Aluminothermic rail welds typically exhibit a variable and often inferior performance when compared with flash butt welds. Fatigue failure as a result of surface defects or harsh geometric features in the presence of high axle loads and tractive forces gives rise to the so-called straight break and horizontal split web...

Author(s): Salehi I;Mutton P;Kapoor A

Organisation(s): Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia ; Institute of Railway Technology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia ;

2012

Australia

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