EFFECT OF THE PROCESS EQUIPMENT ON THE END DISTORTION OF RAILS

Process-stream measurements were made of the end cambers in a group of P-65 type rails in the planes of greatest and least rigidity at the main points of process treatment in the rail and beam shop at the Kuznets Iron and Steel combine. The greatest end distortions are produced in the rails during transfer from the hot saw and after the decelerated-cooling pits, the sign of the camber remaining almost constant at all treatment points. Opposite-sign camber can appear after the rails are straightened, but the back ends (in the direction of rolling and process flow) are not susceptible to straightening. Straightening on a stamping press may be responsible for the rails' opposite-sign camber, the amount of distortion depending to a large extent here on camber measurement accuracy as well as on the straightener's experience.

• Corporate Authors:

  Izdatelstvo Metallurgiya

  2-oi Obydenskii Pereulok 14
  Moscow G-34,   USSR 
• Authors:
  • Pokatilov, Y P
  • Lysenko, I K
• Publication Date: 1973

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 2 p.
• Serial:
  • Stal'
  • Issue Number: 11
  • Publisher: Izdatelstvo Metallurgiya

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Deformation; Rail steel; Railroad rails; Steel; Steel plants
• Old TRIS Terms: Rail deformation; Rail metallurgy; Rail steel metallurgy
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00173050
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 29 1978 12:00AM