Past efforts of the Nigerian Railway Corporation to produce shoe brake blocks locally have proved unsuccessful; the brake blocks produced are defective, and are highly susceptible to brittle (catastrophic) failure. The objective of this work was to undertake failure analysis of locally produced shoe
Analysis of a Brake Cylinder Failure
โ Scribed by B. A. James; S. I. Lieberman
- Book ID
- 107463003
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 686 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1547-7029
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