Mitsuru Hosoda, with the Rail Maintenance and Welding Laboratory in the Track Technology Division of Japan’s Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI), explains how a method for estimating transverse crack propagation using finite element analysis has been developed.
RTRI develops railhead transverse crack propagation prediction method
Mitsuru Hosoda, with the Rail Maintenance and Welding Laboratory in the Track Technology Division of Japan’s Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI), explains how a method for estimating transverse crack propagation using finite element analysis has been developed.
Transverse cracks propagating in the rail dimensional direction originating from head transverse cracks account for approximately 40% of Japan’s rail breakage between 2014 and 2018. Photo: Shutterstock/Travelpixs
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