Rail Quality and Maintenance for Modern Railway OperationJ.J. Kalker, D.F. Cannon, O. Orringer In April 1990 a conference was held at the Cracow Institute of Technology, Cracow, Poland. The title of that conference was "Residual Stresses in Rails - Effects on Rail Integrity and Railroad Economics" and its themes were the measurement and prediction of residual stresses in rails, but, as the sub-title suggests, the intention was also to provide a link between research and its application to the practical railway world. At the Cracow conference there were 40 participants with 5 railways and 5 rail makers being represented and 25 papers were given. The Cracow conference was a success, and by March 1991 its off-spring, "The International Conference on Rail Quality and Maintenance for Modern Railway Operations", was conceived and birth was ultimately given in June 1992 at the Technical University, Delft. It turned out to be some baby, with 112 delegates from 24 countries taking part! As with its predecessor, the conference was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between research investigators, rail makers and railway engineers. A cursory examination of the list of participants suggests that about 57% were from the railway industry, 34% from universities and other research institutions and 9% from the steel industry. Bearing in mind that some of the railway industry participants were from their respective research and development organisations the balance of interests was about right. |
Contents
| 15 | |
Rail Metallurgy and Processing | 29 |
An OffLine Heat Treatment Process Results in Quality DHH Rails at Sydney | 53 |
Strategies for Maximizing Rail Life | 77 |
Noncontact Ultrasonic Inspection of Train Rails for Stress 99 | 98 |
J Deputat J Szelazek and M Adamski | 119 |
J Cooper and J C Schaffner | 137 |
Computational Contact Mechanics of the WheelRail System | 151 |
Analytical and Numerical Treatment of Flange Contact | 203 |
Experimental TriboAnalysis of RailWheel Interface | 225 |
Shakedown Residual Stress and Plastic Flow in Repeated WheelRail Contact | 239 |
O Orringer | 270 |
A New Approach to Enhancement of Experimental Data 287 | 286 |
A B Perlman J E Gordon and O Orringer | 307 |
J H Root T M Holden R J Klassen C Smallman B Maxfield and NR Gore | 325 |
Residual Stress Analysis in Rolling Contact | 349 |
Other editions - View all
Rail Quality and Maintenance for Modern Railway Operation J.J. Kalker,D.F. Cannon,O. Orringer Limited preview - 1993 |
Rail Quality and Maintenance for Modern Railway Operation J.J. Kalker,D.F. Cannon,O. Orringer No preview available - 2010 |
Rail Quality and Maintenance for Modern Railway Operation J.J. Kalker,D.F. Cannon,O. Orringer No preview available - 2013 |
Common terms and phrases
1993 Kluwer Academic alloy austenite axial axle loads bainitic bainitic steels birefringence British Rail calculated carbon compressive contact area contact patch contact stress corrugation crack growth curves defects developed dynamic effect elastic experimental fatigue crack forces fracture frequency friction grinding hardening Hertzian high rail J.J. Kalker Kluwer Academic Publishers locations longitudinal lubrication Maintenance for Modern material method microstructure Modern Railway Operation neutron diffraction normal parameters pearlite plastic deformation predicted propagation Quality and Maintenance rail head rail profile Rail Quality rail side rail side wear rail steel rail surface railpads Railroad residual stresses roller straightening rolling contact fatigue shakedown shear shear stress shown in Figure sleepers speed strain gauge stress field Stress in Rails stress intensity tangential technique tensile tensile stresses tests track transverse two-point contact ultrasonic values vertical wave wear rates welds wheel and rail wheel load wheel/rail wheelset zone