THE TRANSITION AND PRESENT STATUS OF RAILS FOR RAILWAYS

The present work contains a survey of the transition of railway rails from 1901, when the first rail was produced in Japan, to the present and it also provides a description of the present-day status of rails for railways. At present, a total of more than 500,000 tons of rails per year are produced in Japan at the Yahata Iron Works of Nippon Steel Corporation and the Fukuyama Iron Works of Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha. These iron works produce such varieties of rails as 60-kg/m-50 m rails, hyper-hardened-head rails having improved resistance to wear and improved resistance to contact pressure, and rails with head flanges strengthened by heat treatment, representing a strengthening of the rail edge, which has a structural weakness. This study points out that it will be necessary for the future production of rails to employ such techniques as vacuum degassing and continuous casting of blooms as well as introducing alloy steels.

• Corporate Authors:

  Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers

  Shinanomachi Rengakan Building, 5th Floor, Shinanomachi 35, Shinjuku-ku
  Tokyo,   Japan  160-0016
• Authors:
  • Kurihara, T
• Publication Date: 1975

Language

• Japanese

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 941-947
• Serial:
  • Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Journal
  • Volume: 78
  • Issue Number: 683
  • Publisher: Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alloy steel; Heat treated rail; Rail steel; Steel plants; Technology
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Old TRIS Terms: Degassed rail; Rail metallurgy; Rail steel metallurgy
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00172585
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 14 1978 12:00AM