Infrastructure March 2021 Digital Edition

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RAIL EQUIPMENT

RATCHETING PERFORMANCE OF HIGH STRENGTH RAIL STEELS by Dr Jerome Pun, Senior Research Engineer, Monash Institute of Railway Technology

Jerome Pun recently won the ARA's Emerging Rail Specialist Award for his work on ratcheting performance, which plays a key role in causing the rolling contact failure of high strength rail steels. Here, he looks at the performance of three high strength rail steels that are currently used in Australian heavy haul railway system and how they behave under different operating conditions.

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