The Philosophy behind the North American Railway Fatigue Life Recommendations for steel bridge evaluation
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Robert A. P. Sweeney
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Engineering for Progress, Nature and People, Madrid, Spain, 3-5 September 2014 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Madrid 2014 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 2797-2804 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2014 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137814814070172 | ||||
| Abstract: |
As a result of some unexpected fatigue induced failures, it became necessary to develop a way to predict when such failures might occur and then to prioritize structures for repair, retrofit or replacement. In addition, the methodology should enable the estimation of needed future budgets to ensure long term uninterrupted railway service. |
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| Keywords: |
fatigue railroads fracture North American Fitness for purpose Fatigue life estimation
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