LICHFIELD EXPERIMENT: PROGRESS REPORT AND USER'S MANUAL FOR EXPERIMENTAL EQUIPMENT

An experiment is in progress at Lichfield in South Staffordshire on the West Coast Main Line (WCML) of British Rail (BR) as part of a collaborative investigation between BR and Cambridge University Engineering Department (CUED) into the mechanism of rail wear and corrugation formation. The particular effects which are being investigated are the rail composition and the initial rail-head profile. This report describes the experimental procedure which has been adopted on site, and the purpose and use of the computer programs which have been developed to acquire profile data, to process and plot this data, and to process wear data. The wear and profile records which have been obtained to date are briefly discussed.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Cambridge

  Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street
  Cambridge,   United Kingdom  CB2 1PZ
• Authors:
  • GRASSIE, S L
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Pagination: 61 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer programs; Data collection; Pavement corrugations; Railroad rails; Test tracks; Wear
• Identifier Terms: British Rail
• Uncontrolled Terms: Rail corrugation
• Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00389342
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: CUED/C-MECH/TR-36
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 30 1984 12:00AM