• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.339-344
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• 1999

In this paper, the hardness and wear characteristics of the head hardened rail, which is made by thermite and gas pressure weldings have been presented. In general, the wear rate of the gas pressure welded rail is high and uniform compared with that of thermite welded rail. The results indicate that HH 370 welded rail shows stable in hardness and low wear rate compared with other two welded rails. The hardness of head hardened rails shows uniformly distributed along the welded zone, thermally affected zone and a base matrix.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.345-353
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• 1999

This paper presents friction and wear related results of thermite and gas pressure welded rails under various environmental contact conditions. A welded rail which is manufactured by thermite welding and gas pressure one has been tested rail full range of test conditions in a pin-on-disk wear testing machine. The results show that the friction coefficient and wear rates of a welded rail are heavily dependent on the contact pressures and sliding environments for two welding methods such as thermite and gas pressure weldings.