PLASTICS IN RAIL TRANSPORT

This is a comprehensive survey of plastic parts employed in Soviet rail transport. The advantages of using plastics parts have stimulated an expansion of their fields of use in all branches of rail technology. They are uses in rail automation equipment, telemechanics and communication, in passenger carriages, electric trains and locomotives, in overhead structures and in contact circuitry. It has been shown that the Russian rail transport uses almost all type of plastics materials processed by various technologies.

• Corporate Authors:

  Rubber and Technical Press Limited

  25 Lloyd Baker Street
  London WC1,   England 
• Authors:
  • Sitkovskii, I P
• Publication Date: 1972

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 15-22
• Serial:
  • Soviet Plastics
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: Rubber and Technical Press Limited

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Materials science; Polymers
• Subject Areas: Materials; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00046090
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1976 12:00AM