FIFTEENTH PROGRESS REPORT ON SHELLY RAIL STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Mechanical tests and rolling-load tests produced shelling on 16 different rails: four standard carbon rails averaged 1,358,000 cycles; five silicon rails averaged 1,692,000 cycles; four higher silicon rails averaged 1,940,000 cycles; two silicon-vanadium rails averaged 2,038,000 cycles; and one chrome-vanadium rail ran 4,874,000 cycles; Laboratory examinations were made of six rails which developed detail fractures in service. Rolling-load tests produced detail fractures from shelling in 10 rails.

• Corporate Authors:

  American Railway Engineering Association

  59 East Van Buren Street
  Chicago, IL  United States  60605
• Authors:
  • Cramer, R E
• Publication Date: 1957-2

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 1041-47
• Serial:
  • AREA BULLETIN
  • Volume: 58
  • Issue Number: 535
  • Publisher: American Railway Engineering Association

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Defects; Dynamic loads; Failure; Hardness; Railroad rails; Shelling (Metals); Technology
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Rail failure; Shelling; Shelling (Rails)
• Subject Areas: Materials; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00040587
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 8 1994 12:00AM