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The Weight of Rails and the Breaking of Iron Rails
The Weight of Rails.—The writer has long entertained the opinion that the assumption of any fixed relation between the weight of a rail and the maximum load borne hy one pair of wheels passing over it, was misleading and fallacious. A simple consideration of the pressure on the surfaces in contact between the driving wheels of the locomotives and the rails will make this apparent. If the wheel and the rail were both inelastic, the contact would be a line, and the pressure would be infinite. Being elastic, however, they both yield a little, and the contact becomes a surface.
The Weight of Rails and the Breaking of Iron Rails
The Weight of Rails.—The writer has long entertained the opinion that the assumption of any fixed relation between the weight of a rail and the maximum load borne hy one pair of wheels passing over it, was misleading and fallacious. A simple consideration of the pressure on the surfaces in contact between the driving wheels of the locomotives and the rails will make this apparent. If the wheel and the rail were both inelastic, the contact would be a line, and the pressure would be infinite. Being elastic, however, they both yield a little, and the contact becomes a surface.
The Weight of Rails and the Breaking of Iron Rails
Chanute, Octave (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 3 ; 111-117
2021-01-01
71874-01-01 pages
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