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Railway Wheel material

Railway Wheel material

Railway Wheel material

(OP)
Hi,
I am designing a railway trailer to cary an escavator; the trailer will feature 8 wheels (diameter= 400 mm), each wheel carrying a load of:
7 ton (working rolling load);
14 ton (static load) when loading/unloading the escavator; Trailer maximum speed=20km/h.
Concerning the wheels (my big problem) i think the best/cheap way will be cast steel and then machined. However, I don't know what is the best material to use, neither the casting companys i've contact could tell me.

what material should i specify that best suites this kind of aplications?

thanks for your help

RE: Railway Wheel material

Any medium carbon steel material grade material 4140 or 4340 with flame hardening .

A number of foundries must be doing these castings routinely.  

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RE: Railway Wheel material

You should be able to buy small railway wheels right off the shelf. Barring that, forged and rough turned 1045 is commonly available up to 24 inches diameter.  You can buy the sawn blanks and have a turning shop finish them out, and flame harden as necessary.

RE: Railway Wheel material

nalves;
Are you familar with rairoad truck and carrier designs? As an example, I would suggest you take a look at the web site below from Griffin Wheels in the USA. We use them for our rail coal cars. You should use a wheel design that is proven and compatible with the rail system at your location - domestic or other location.

http://griffinwheel.com/wheels.asp

RE: Railway Wheel material

They've only been making train wheels for a couple of hundred years, don't reinvent them.

RE: Railway Wheel material

(OP)
thanks for your tips. it really helped me.

RE: Railway Wheel material

hi nalves,
for any information you can get in touch with lucchini sidermeccanica that can give you sufficient information and indication about distribution of their products:
http://www.lucchinirs.it/vedit/pagina.asp?pagina=1243
cciao maurizio

RE: Railway Wheel material

may be u can try 65Mn(chinese trade mark,i don't konw the USA trade mark).and with flame hardening or induction hardening.
the workpiece needs to be thermal refining.

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