The potential for suppressing rail defect growth through tailoring rail thermo-mechanical properties

Thermal damage of rails can occur through brake lock-up, or traction control system failure to prevent wheel spin. In most cases the damage produced is shallow and takes the form of a “white etching layer”, usually thought to have a martensitic structure, formed as the steel is heated above its eute...

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Main Authors: I., David, N., Fletcher, H. Sanusi, Shahmir
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier Science Ltd 2016
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description Thermal damage of rails can occur through brake lock-up, or traction control system failure to prevent wheel spin. In most cases the damage produced is shallow and takes the form of a “white etching layer”, usually thought to have a martensitic structure, formed as the steel is heated above its eutectoid tem-perature and then rapidly cooled as the wheel moves away. In many cases such layers are benign, but there is evidence of crack initiation at their interface with the sub-surface layers of the rail in “stud” defects. The metallurgical transformation during the formation of white etching layers leads to a volume change for the steel, leaving not only a transformed microstructure, but also locked-in stress. The influence of this additional locked-in stress on development of an initiated crack is studied in this paper, and the work extended to consider how alternative materials which react differently to the thermal input may offer a means to suppress crack development through locking in beneficial rather than problematic stresses.
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spelling uthm-37042021-11-21T07:57:34Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3704/ The potential for suppressing rail defect growth through tailoring rail thermo-mechanical properties I., David N., Fletcher H. Sanusi, Shahmir TF Railroad engineering and operation Thermal damage of rails can occur through brake lock-up, or traction control system failure to prevent wheel spin. In most cases the damage produced is shallow and takes the form of a “white etching layer”, usually thought to have a martensitic structure, formed as the steel is heated above its eutectoid tem-perature and then rapidly cooled as the wheel moves away. In many cases such layers are benign, but there is evidence of crack initiation at their interface with the sub-surface layers of the rail in “stud” defects. The metallurgical transformation during the formation of white etching layers leads to a volume change for the steel, leaving not only a transformed microstructure, but also locked-in stress. The influence of this additional locked-in stress on development of an initiated crack is studied in this paper, and the work extended to consider how alternative materials which react differently to the thermal input may offer a means to suppress crack development through locking in beneficial rather than problematic stresses. Elsevier Science Ltd 2016 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3704/1/AJ%202017%20%2894%29%20The%20potential%20for%20suppressing%20rail%20defect.pdf I., David and N., Fletcher and H. Sanusi, Shahmir (2016) The potential for suppressing rail defect growth through tailoring rail thermo-mechanical properties. Wear, 366-36. pp. 401-406. ISSN 0043-1648 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2016.06.022
spellingShingle TF Railroad engineering and operation
I., David
N., Fletcher
H. Sanusi, Shahmir
The potential for suppressing rail defect growth through tailoring rail thermo-mechanical properties
title The potential for suppressing rail defect growth through tailoring rail thermo-mechanical properties
title_full The potential for suppressing rail defect growth through tailoring rail thermo-mechanical properties
title_fullStr The potential for suppressing rail defect growth through tailoring rail thermo-mechanical properties
title_full_unstemmed The potential for suppressing rail defect growth through tailoring rail thermo-mechanical properties
title_short The potential for suppressing rail defect growth through tailoring rail thermo-mechanical properties
title_sort potential for suppressing rail defect growth through tailoring rail thermo-mechanical properties
topic TF Railroad engineering and operation
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