Residual Stress in Rails: Effects on Rail Integrity and Railroad Economics Volume II: Theoretical and Numerical Analyses

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These volumes contain contributions from a conference on the themes of measurement and prediction of residual stress in railroad rails. Volume I contains elements of practical railway experience, laboratory tests, including experimental stress analysis, and theoretical evaluations of residual stress, crack propagation, and rail fracture. Theoretical and numerical analyses are presented in Volume II, in the hope that models based on solid mechanics can correlate the experimental stress measurements and lead to better understanding of the effects of residual stress upon crack propagation, fracture, and ultimately the economics of rail in the modern railroad environment.