STANDARDISATION OF WAGONS. DESIGNATIONS OF STEELS AND CAST-IRONS APPEARING IN THE PARTS' LIST OF THE STANDARDISATION DRAWINGS OF WAGONS

The present report is intended for establishing a comparison between the materials the most widely used by the railway Administrations in the construction of standard wagons. It replaces "ORE Collection No. 564", approved by the ORE B 12 Committee in December 1972.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Restrictions on the use of this document are contained in the explanatory material.
• Corporate Authors:

  International Union of Railways

  Office of Research and Experiments
  Utrecht,   Netherlands 
• Publication Date: 1978-10

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: 9 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alloy steel; Casting; Chemical composition; Forging; Freight cars; Manganese; Mechanical properties; Metal heating; Metallurgy; Standardization; Steel; Vehicle design
• Uncontrolled Terms: Heat treatment
• Old TRIS Terms: Freight car design; Manganese steels; Question b12; Steel forgings; Steel metallurgy
• Subject Areas: Design; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00053312
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Union of Railways
• Report/Paper Numbers: B 12/RP 28
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 11 1979 12:00AM