TWO DIMENSIONAL PHOTOELASTIC EXPERIMENTS ON SEVERAL RAIL SECTIONS

To decrease the fracture of rail, to improve the profile of rail section is as important as to improve material and maintenance of rail. Concerning the rail section design for the New Tokaido Trunk Line, improvement of profile of PS 50 kg and ASCE 37 kg rail has been attempted by the Railway Technical Research Institute, JNR, with cooperation of the Bureau of Construction. As a part of this study, the stress distributions of several positions in profiles of the newly designed rail, PS 50 kg rail, ASCE 37 kg rail, and typical rails in America and Europe were measured by two-dimensional photoelastic experiments.

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  JAPANESE NATIONAL RAILWAYS

  TOKYO,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • Miyairi, M
  • Sasaki, N
• Publication Date: 1961-9

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 30-33
• Serial:
  • Railway Technical Research Institute, Quarterly Reports
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Railway Technical Research Institute/Tetsudo Gijutsu Kenkyujo
  • ISSN: 0033-9008
  • Serial URL: http://www.rtri.or.jp/eng/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Deformation curve; Photoelasticity; Railroad rails; Stresses; Technology
• Geographic Terms: Germany; Japan; United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Photoelastic analysis; Rail stress
• Subject Areas: Materials; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00033125
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Quart Rpt
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 8 1994 12:00AM