Rail grinding quality assurance based on profile correction and RCF control

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Rail grinding quality assurance based on profile correction and RCF control

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Rail grinding is used by rail infrastructure owners to remove rail corrugations, rolling contact fatigue (RCF) cracks and for re-profiling the rail. In North America, the standard practice is Preventive and Preventive-Gradual grinding strategy which uses high production rail grinders to complete a single pass on most track locations at high grinding speed. These practices have been proven in field tests to be the most cost effective grinding strategies. To plan rail grinding on Queensland Rai...

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06 Dec, 2017

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Rajkumar Devadoss / Gopinath Chattopadhyay / Nirmal Mandal / P Sroba / M Turner / G Creese

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https://figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Rail_grinding_quality_assurance_based_on_pr...

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Grinding quality index (GQI) / Rail profile / Rolling contact Fatigue (RCF) / RCF condition index / Transport Engineering / Transport engineering

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