Wheels on Rails - An update: Understanding and Managing the Wheel/Rail Interface.

Published by IMechE - Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 23 April 2002., London:, 2002

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c.80pp unpaginated A4 sheets of text, diagrams and illustrations bound with transparent covers. Comprising eleven articles: Shakedown Theory and Rolling Contact Fatigue, by Ajay Kapoor; Vehicle Dynamics and the Wheel/Rail Interface, by Jerry Evans and Simon Iwnicki; Site Observations by Brian Whitney; London Underground's Experience at the Wheel/Rail Interface, by Malcolm Dobell; Swiss Railways' Experience with Gauge Corner Cracking and its Management, by Heinz Pfarrer; London Underground's Experience at the Wheel/Rail Interface, by Steven L Clark; Lifecycle Issues, by Bridget Eickhoff; Managing the Rail Head, by David Wright; Managing the Wheel/Rail Interface: Operational Issues in Wheel Life Management, by Charles Watson, Felix Schimid; and Monitoring the Wheel and the Rail by Sylvia Wasserman. All very fresh and clean.

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Wheels on Rails - An update: Understanding and Managing the Wheel/Rail Interface.
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organised by The Railway Division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers: and sponsored by AEA Technology Rail:
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IMechE - Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 23 April 2002., London:
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2002
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Presumed first and only edition.
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