Tomlinson, K. orcid.org/0000-0003-4691-5057, Fletcher, D.I. and Lewis, R. (2021) Measuring material plastic response to cyclic loading in modern rail steels from a minimal number of twin-disc tests. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 235 (10). pp. 1203-1213. ISSN 0954-4097
Abstract
Advances in rail materials from conventional rail steels to those with higher yield points and the potential of additively manufactured laser clad coatings to improve the durability of railway track components presents a new challenge in characterisation. Many of these new and novel materials have either limited test samples available or are more resistant to strain and therefore present challenges in characterisation. The method reported here uses twin disc tests to simulate cyclic loading experienced by rail steel in service. A sample from a single test condition is analysed, measuring the shear yield stress and the accumulated shear strain at multiple depths below the contact surface, from which a Shear Yield Stress – Plastic Shear Strain (SYS-PSS) relationship is extracted. Knowledge of the stress history of a rail sample is not required to apply the method and minimal samples are required, providing a technique which can be used on rail steel samples removed from service.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © IMechE 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | Rail; shear yield stress; plastic shear strain; ratchetting; plasticity |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Mechanical Engineering (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 1949426 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2021 14:30 |
Last Modified: | 17 Feb 2022 12:14 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0954409721993615 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:170152 |