EFFECTIVENESS OF ALLOYING RAIL STEEL WITH CHROMIUM

Service tests have proved that type R-50 railway rails made of steel containing 0.63 to 0.75% C and 0.7 to 1.0% Mn and alloyed with chromium (0.5 to 1.0%) have an increased (by a mean 25%) resistance to contact-fatigue defects, less wear per 100 million gross tons of freight, and less rippling of the surface after use than carbon steel rails of standard composition. These advantages are obtained if the total C+1/4 Mn content of the steel is not lower than 0.88%.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Original text published in "Stal" n9, September 1969, pp828-30, published by Mezhdunarodynaya Kniga, Moscow G-200, USSR.
• Corporate Authors:

  Metals Society

  1 Carlton House Terrace
  London SW1Y 5DB,   England 
• Authors:
  • Kazarhovskii, D S
  • Shnaperman, L Y
  • Kravtsova, I P
  • Ravitskaya, T M
  • Pavlenko, Y P
  • Skvortsov, O S
  • Shvarts, Y F
• Publication Date: 1969-9

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 823-5
• Serial:
  • Steel in the USSR
  • Issue Number: 9

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alloy steel; Alloys; Chromium; Construction; Fatigue (Mechanics); Railroad rails; Structural design; Wear
• Old TRIS Terms: Chromium containing alloys; Rail design
• Subject Areas: Construction; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00037199
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 20 1976 12:00AM