Sentence examples for the rail surface from inspiring English sources

Rail-grinding machines run over the track to even out irregularities in the rail surface.

It involves recoating the rail surface with a metal-reinforced epoxy in which the heating elements for de-icing would be encased and protected from moisture and corrosion.

One of the usual methods is installing a strain gauge on the rail surface.

The dynamic loads are assumed to be generated from the rail surface irregularities.

Sometimes the rail surface is hardened to reduce the wear of the rail under extremely heavy cars or on sharp curves.

Primary cracks initiated at an angle of 10 15° with respect to the rail surface and then turned down at an angle of 50° with respect to the rail surface.

In the formulation presented in this paper, four parameters are used to describe the wheel and the rail surfaces.

Radiated noise levels are strongly influenced by the kind of braking system as well as by the condition of the rail surfaces.

Nonlinear effects due to the shape and roughness of the wheel and the rail surfaces are included in the point contact model by pre-calculation of functions for the contact stiffness and contact filters.

The dynamic forces due to the welded rail surface irregularity cause increased plastic deformation not only at the rail weld but also at the base metal near the rail weld.

The research mainly aims at the common rail surface defects, such as cracks, peeling, scratches, folds, broken rails, scars, and other forms [5].