The paper summarises damage tolerance investigations on railway rails which the authors have carried out in the context of the German-French joint project NOVUM (novel methods for quantitative prediction of rail performance at increased service loads) (Girardi L, Heyder R, Dider L, Boulanger D. IDR2-NOVUM promises lower rail maintenance costs. Railway Gazette Int 2005;(July):439-41(1)). The investigations include the determination of the crack driving force as a function of the various loading components a rail is subjected to and the simulation of residual lifetime. Features such as the local load input at the rail-wheel interface, dynamic effects and statistical aspects of crack resistance are explicitly taken into account.
Damage tolerance investigations on rails
Untersuchungen zur Schadenstoleranz von Eisenbahnschienen
Engineering Fracture Mechanics ; 76 , 17 ; 2637-2653
2009
17 Seiten, 21 Quellen
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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