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Modelling of rail surface temperatures

Last updated on 03 October 2014 12:14

Variations in rail temperature are responsible for a large proportion of weather related delays on the rail network. Tracks are pre-stressed to withstand a specified range of temperature, but once the range is breached the rail can distort causing tension cracks in cold weather and buckling in hot weather. Currently,...

Author(s): Chapman, L.;Thornes, J.E.;Huang, Y;Sanderson, V.L.;Cai, X.;White, S.P

Organisation(s): Entice Technology Ltd ; University of Birmingham ;

2007

United Kingdom

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