Methods of Reducing Wear of Rails / Railway Wheels

Followings are some different techniques and methods for reducing wear of rails.Use of special alloy steel, Good maintenance of track, Reduction of expansion gap, Exchange of inner and outer rail on curve, Use of lubricating oil on the gauge face, By coning of wheel, Reduction of the number of joints, interchanging inner and outer rails, Tilting of rails

Tribological Aspects of Wheel–Rail Contact: A Review of Wear Mechanisms and Effective Factors on Rolling Contact Fatigue

What are the Different Types of Rails? - The Constructor

Equipment for measuring and checking : FCS Rail railway equipment

Train weels have a contact area of about one fingernail, as seen in this picture. : r/mildlyinteresting

Wheel Re-Profiling and Rail Grinding Strategies on Wiener Linien (Part 1 of 2) - Interface Journal

Railway track - Wikipedia

PDF) Wheel–rail wear simulation

Measurements of friction coefficients between rails lubricated with a friction modifier and the wheels of an IORE locomotive during real working conditions - ScienceDirect

Tribological Aspects of Wheel–Rail Contact: A Review of Wear Mechanisms and Effective Factors on Rolling Contact Fatigue

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Wear in a Wheel/Rail System versus Ratio of Rail to Wheel Hardness

Use of railway wheel wear and damage prediction tools to improve maintenance efficiency through the use of economic tyre turning - Yousif Muhamedsalih, Julian Stow, Adam Bevan, 2019

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Polygonisation of railway wheels: a critical review

Reducing wheel wear from the perspective of rail track layout optimization - Yunguang Ye, Yu Sun, 2021