Making the business case to cut rolling contact fatigue

By Railway Gazette International and RAH/Doherty2004-07-01T10:00:00

INTRO: The cost to Britain’s national railway of damage from rolling contact fatigue has been conservatively estimated at £250m a year, and measures to limit RCF crack formation could cut that by 55%. Andy Doherty, who chairs the newly-established Vehicle/Track System Interface Committee, explains how co-operation between rail industry players ...

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