Fatigue in Railway Engineering

This authoritative new book covers every aspect of fatigue in the railway system. The book begins with an introductory chapter on the fundamentals of fatigue by Professor Roderick Smith, a leading authority on the subject. The book includes chapters on infrastructure concentrating predominantly on rail fatigue, rolling contact fatigue and sleepers and ballast. A chapter on vehicles discusses wheels, axles, bogies, bodyshells, and soldered joints. Another chapter examines fatigue in tunnels and viaducts earthworks. The following chapter concentrates on solid mechanics, cuttings, embankments and drainage and the final chapter on the railway customer interface, such as barriers and ticket machines. It is a valuable resource for everyone concerned with the rail industry and academics and researchers of railway systems.