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      <title>THE PRINCIPAL RAIL DEFECTS, INTERIM REPORT NO. 3 (CHAPTERS I-IV)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A listing of principal rail defects which includes the description, causes, consequences and remedies for each. Those included are: vertical longitudinal splitting, laps, shelling of heattreated rails, gauge corner shelling, star cracking of fish bolt holes, progressive transverse cracking in rail heads, horizontal cracking of rail head and transverse fractures at longitudinal fissures.  Included at the end of each unit are a number of photographs of each flaw.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>RECENT AMERICAN STEEL RAIL DEVELOPMENTS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The practice of taking impression tests on rail-heads, with a hardened steel ball under an applied load of 100,000 lb., is being abandoned.  The controlled cooling and Brunorizing processes used on rails to eliminate shatter-cracking are described.  The steps being taken to detect longitudinal fissures, which result in split webs and split heads, are described.  The detection methods still fail to detect some transverse fissuring.  Other causes of rail failure include engine burn fracture, piping, enclosed gas pockets, and rolling overlaps.  Rail-ends are being flame-hardened or quench-hardened to arrest battering of rail-ends under extremely severe load, speed, and traffic conditions.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[JNR examined 675 faulty rails as part of a comprehensive study of rail failures in Japan.  This article examines some of the findings in relation to type of failure and cause.  Sections are devoted to transverse cracks, vertically-split webs, impurity distribution, shatter cracks, tensile tests, heat treatment methods, chemical composition, and cold shortness.  Photographs show some of the problems encountered.]]></description>
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