Dear Sir - The Hatfield rail was not unique...

INTRO: Fred Mau* points out that rails have shattered before on the scale observed after last October’s derailment, and points to the interaction of rolling contact fatigue cracks with residual stresses in the railTHE PICTURE of the rail recovered from Hatfield in RG 3.01 (p157) prompts me to write. The ...

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