This article presents empirical findings relating to head check growth and discusses a number of studies that have examined key factors inlluencing head check development. Advanced analysis of head check growth is necessary in order to determine the optimum time for preventive rail grinding and to enable crack propagation rates to be taken into account when planning and carrying out rail grinding work. The results have been used to derive head check propagation rates for R260 and R350HT rail steels. These empirically derived growth rates are used to specify the amount of metal that has to be removed from the rail surface in a particular grinding interval or by a particular grinding time-limit, either as part of DB's cyclical preventive maintenance scheme or its fault-based, corrective maintenance programme.


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    Title :

    Empirical studies of head check propagation


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    Publication date :

    2012


    Size :

    9 Seiten, 8 Bilder, 2 Tabellen, 12 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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