DYNAMIC BODY CRACKING OF UNIT COAL TRAIN CARS

Problems of "excessive" wear and failure have arisen in new cars in unit train service; some due to over-the-road running, others to rough handling of light cars. The load spectrum encountered by a conventional-service car is compressed, for the unit train car, into a much shorter time interval. One problem these conditions produced in a new fleet of coal-hauling unit cars was corrosion-fatigue.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the 1976 Joint ASME/IEEE Railroad Technical Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 6-8, 1976. For the complete volume see RRIS No. 02- 131638, Publication 7602.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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  New York, NY  United States  10016-5990
• Authors:
  • Rhine, P E
  • Williams, A D
  • Driver, J B
• Conference:
  • Presented at the 1976 Joint ASME/IEEE Railroad Technical Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 6-8, 1976. For the complete volume see RRIS No. 02- 131638, Publication 7602.
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 115-122

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Corrosion; Cracking; Dynamic tests; Fatigue cracking; Freight cars; Gondola cars; Motor vehicle bodies; Protective coatings; Train track dynamics; Vehicle design
• Uncontrolled Terms: Dynamic analysis; Fatigue analysis
• Old TRIS Terms: Car body; Freight car component performance; Freight car design
• Subject Areas: Design; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00131643
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 14 1976 12:00AM