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Failure of a Pearlitic Rail Steel with an Internal Macrocrack

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One of most dangerous defects which lead to transverse fractures of rails, namely, internal transverse cracks in a rail head are considered. A rail cross-section surface with a transverse fatigue crack is subjected to a fractographic analysis. The rail sample is taken from the service after many-year service life. The microstructural analysis of the surfaces of the crack and the ambient material shows a substantial degradation of physicochemical properties of rail steel.

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  1. Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199178, St. Petersburg, Russia

    S. A. Atroshenko

  2. Alexander the First St. Petersburg State University, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

    S. S. Maier & V. I. Smirnov

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Atroshenko, S.A., Maier, S.S. & Smirnov, V.I. Failure of a Pearlitic Rail Steel with an Internal Macrocrack. Phys. Solid State 63, 680–686 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783421050048

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