THERMALLY HARDENED RAILS

TERMICHESKI UPROCHNENNYE REL'SY

The technology of thermally hardened rails is discussed in 10 chapters: Rail Work Conditions and Operational Requirements; Requirements of Thermally Hardened Rails: Design Rigidity of Rails; Increasing the Strength of Rails; The Metallurgy and Capacity of Rails; Selection of Optimal Chemical Composition of Rail Steel; Thermal Hardening of the Entire Lengths of Rails; Properties of Thermally Hardened Rails; Peculiarities of the Operation of Thermally Hardened Rails; Welding Thermally Hardened Rails; Prespectives on the Further Increase of Rail Rigidity.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Table of Contents only is available in English, original text untranslated as of December 1976.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transport Publishing House

  Basmannyi Tupik 6A
  Moscow B-174,   USSR 
• Publication Date: 1976

Language

• Russian

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alloy steel; Defects; Fatigue strength; Metal hardening; Metal heating; Rail steel; Railroad rails; Stresses; Structural design; Wear; Welding
• Uncontrolled Terms: Heat treatment
• Old TRIS Terms: Rail design; Rail hardening; Rail steel metallurgy; Rail stress; Rail welding
• Subject Areas: Design; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00144449
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Railroad Administration
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Feb 16 1977 12:00AM