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Plastic Deformation of Large Wheel on Rail
I have encountered an issue with an industrial application involving a 28"-diameter, 2-1/2" wide, flat-tread hardened medium carbon steel wheels on a standard 104# crane rail in a low speed application of heavy load (about 85,000 pounds per wheel). The wheels were hardened to what was deemed...- JJ8th-e
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