Suggests that rails are being stressed beyond service limit. (From report by W. P. Borland, chief of Bureau of Safety of Interstate Commerce Commission of an investigation made by James E. Howard, engineer-physicist of Commission.) Also Ry. Rev., vol. 63, no. 24, Dec. 14, 1918, pp. 843-847, 11 figs.
Transverse fissures cause rail failures
Ry. Age
Railway Age ; 65 , n 23
1918
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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Interior transverse rail fissures
Engineering Index Backfile | 1916
|Transverse fissures the result of rail gagging
Engineering Index Backfile | 1915
|No shatter cracks in rail -- No transverse fissures
Engineering Index Backfile | 1940
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1916
No shatter cracks in rail -- No transverse fissures
Engineering Index Backfile | 1940
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