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Development and Evaluation of Advanced Wheel Steels to Prevent Wheel Failures in the North American Heavy Haul Operating Environment

Last updated on 29 August 2014 4:49

This paper presents the results of metallurgical analysis and mechanical and residual stress tests for high performance wheels that are currently under test under 35-metric ton (39 ton) load axles. For this test, eight high performance wheels were tested from various suppliers including an experimental wheel developed by the Transportation...

Author(s): Robles Hern?ndez F C;Kalay S;Anankitpaiboon S;Cummings S

Organisation(s): Transportation Technology Center, Inc., Pueblo, Colorado, USA ; Mechanical Engineering Technology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA ;

2010

United States

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