Calculation analysis is performed for temperature, strains, and stresses within railway rails during differential quenching for lower bainite. The possibility is demonstrated of a radical reduction in rail buckling with a choice of rational cooling regimes for a rail head and foot.
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Translated from Metallurg, No. 12, pp. 57–64, December, 2011.
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Samoilovich, Y.A. Possibility of producing railway rails with increased strength and minimum buckling. Metallurgist 55, 903–911 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11015-012-9520-0
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