Damage tolerance of railway axles

✍ Scribed by Stefano Beretta; Uwe Zerbst

• Book ID: 104017595
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 110 KB
• Volume: 78
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0013-7944
• DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2011.02.014

✦ Synopsis

Damage tolerance of railway axles

This special issue is the result of a TC24 meeting held at Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Meccanica, on 13-14th October 2008. The meeting hosted 70 attendees (most of them from the industry) and 16 technical presentations which gave a precise overview of the research projects that, at the time, were closing their activities (WIDEM, DEUFRAKO, UK Axle) and of the approaches adopted in some countries.

Some of the presentations were then selected for the inclusion in this special issue, which presents some important new results in different topics related to the structural integrity assessment of railway axles (sensitivity analysis, load spectra, multiaxiality, crack growth rates of the axle steels, crack growth in presence of fretting).

We would like to especially draw the readers' attention to some important new results that had been commonly adopted by the different projects, even if the activities of the research groups were independent, that found a support in the presentation at the TC24 meeting: