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Residual Stress in Rails

Effects on Rail Integrity and Railroad Economics Volume II: Theoretical and Numerical Analyses

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Oscar Orringer

    1. U.S. Department of Transportation, Cambridge, USA

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  2. Janusz Orkisz

    1. Cracow Institute of Technology, Cracow, Poland

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  3. Zdzisław Świderski

    1. Central Research Institute of the Polish State Railways, Warsaw, Poland

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Part of the book series: Engineering Applications of Fracture Mechanics (EAFM, volume 12-13)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Residual stresses and web fracture in roller-straightened rail

    • S. J. Wineman, F. A. McClintock
    Pages 1-22

  3. Some factors influencing the transition from shelling to detail fracture

    • T. N. Farris, Y. Xu, L. M. Keer
    Pages 23-44

  4. Analysis of crack front propagation in contact

    • M. Olzak, J. Stupnicki, R. Wójcik
    Pages 45-62

  5. Effect of load sequence on fatigue life of rail steel

    • G. C. Sih, D. Y. Jeong
    Pages 63-85

  6. On residual stresses in corrugated rails and wheel/rail interaction

    • R. Bogacz
    Pages 87-100

  7. Prediction of actual residual stresses by constrained minimization of energy

    • J. Orkisz
    Pages 101-124

  8. Hybrid finite element method for estimation of actual residual stresses

    • M. Hołowinski, J. Orkisz
    Pages 125-149

  9. Application of the constrained minimization method to the prediction of residual stresses in actual rail sections

    • A. B. Perlman, J. E. Gordon
    Pages 151-177

  10. Estimation of actual residual stresses by the boundary element method

    • W. Cecot, J. Orkisz
    Pages 179-190

  11. A new feasible directions method in nonlinear optimization

    • J. Orkisz, M. Pazdanowski
    Pages 191-205

  12. Enhancement of experimental results by constrained minimization

    • W. Karmowski, J. Magiera, J. Orkisz
    Pages 207-217

  13. On future development of the constrained energy minimization method

    • J. Orkisz
    Pages 219-233

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 234-234
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About this book

Rail integrity is a current application of engineering fracture mechanics at a practical level. Although railroad rails have been manufactured and used for more than a century, it is only in the last ten years that the effects of their crack propagation and fracture characteristics have been considered from a rational viewpoint. The J,Jractical objectives are to develop damage tolerance ~delines for rail inspection and to improve the fracture resistance of new rail productiOn. Rail fatigue crack propagation rates and fracture resistance are strongly influenced by residual stresses, which are introduced into the rail both during proouction and in service. Therefore, the rail residual stress field must be well understood before fracture mechanics can be usefully applied to the subject of rail integrity. The three-dintensional character of rail and its stress fields make it essential to apply both experimental and analytical methods in order to twderstand the effects of pro­ duction and service variables on residual stress and the effects of the stress on fatigue crack propagation and fracture. This volume brings to~ether field observations and experimental stress analysis of railroad rails in the Umted States and Europe. The ongoing search for an efficient and accurate technique is emphasized. A companion volume brings together several analytical investigations, based on advanced compu­ tational mechanics methods, for correlation of the experimental data as well as eval­ uation of the effects of residual stress on rail integrity.

Editors and Affiliations

  • U.S. Department of Transportation, Cambridge, USA

    Oscar Orringer

  • Cracow Institute of Technology, Cracow, Poland

    Janusz Orkisz

  • Central Research Institute of the Polish State Railways, Warsaw, Poland

    Zdzisław Świderski

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