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Rail Quality and Maintenance for Modern Railway Operation

By: J.J. Kalker (Editor), D.F. Cannon (Editor), O. Orringer (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 July 1993

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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.

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Introduction
Future Rail Requirements	p. 3
Rail Developments and Requirements for Heavy Haul Railways	p. 15
Rail Metallurgy and Processing	p. 29
A Review of Bainitic Steels for Wheel/Rail Contact	p. 41
An Off-Line Heat Treatment Process Results in Quality DHH Rails at Sydney Steel Corporation	p. 53
Residual Stresses in Rail	p. 61
Strategies for Maximizing Rail Life	p. 77
Noncontact Ultrasonic Inspection of Train Rails for Stress	p. 99
Experiences in Ultrasonic Measurements of Stresses in Rails	p. 109
Rail Side Wear Problem on Chinese Railways	p. 119
Rail Rectification Specifications and Modern Grinding Stone Technology	p. 127
In Track Quality Control and Assessment of Rails	p. 137
Computational Contact Mechanics of the Wheel-Rail System	p. 151
Dynamic Models of the Track and Their Uses	p. 165
Rail Service Load Environment by Measurement and Modeling	p. 185
Analytical and Numerical Treatment of Flange Contact	p. 203
On an Approach to Prediction of Contact Loading of Rail for Two-Point Contact Between Wheel and Rail	p. 215
Experimental Tribo-Analysis of Rail/Wheel Interface	p. 225
Shakedown, Residual Stress and Plastic Flow in Repeated Wheel-Rail Contact	p. 239
How Residual Stresses can Affect Rail Performance	p. 253
Predication of Residual Stress in Rails: Practical Benefits from Theoretical Approach	p. 273
A New Approach to Enhancement of Experimental Data	p. 287
Effect of Grinding Strategy on Residual Stress in the Rail Head	p. 297
Residual Stress Measurements in Rails by Neutron Diffraction	p. 307
Neutron Diffraction Measurements of Residual Stress in Rails	p. 315
Residual Stresses and Catastrophic Rail Failure	p. 325
Beneficial Residual Stresses at Bolt Holes by Cold Expansion	p. 337
Residual Stress Analysis in Rolling Contact	p. 349
Fatigue Crack Growth in Rail Steels	p. 361
Crack Behaviour under Rolling Contact Fatigue	p. 373
Numerical Analysis of 3D Cracks Propagating in the Rail-Wheel Contact Zone	p. 385
Modelling of 3D Rail Head Rolling Contact Fatigue Cracks	p. 397
Tribological Investigations of Crack Development on the Rail on an Energetical Basis	p. 407
The Effect of Head Checking on the Bending Fatigue Strength of Railway Rails	p. 425
Rolling Contact Fatigue Cracks on S.N.C.F. Conventional Tracks	p. 435
List of Participants	p. 449
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