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Other Reports
Report on the Functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission
Keywords: Regulations, Motor Carrier, Domestic Water Carriers
Abstract: This report examines a range of policy issues dealing with the economic regulation of surface transportation service (primarily freight) in the United States. Freight...
Other Reports
Preliminary Summary of 1994 Accident/Incident Data for January - December
Keywords: Accident data, Incident data
Abstract: A railroad is required to make an accident/incident report within 30 days of the end of each month. The FRA examines these reports and resolves errors, omissions, and...
Other Reports
Report No. 28 - Residual Stress in Induction-Heated Railroad Wheels: Ultrasonic and Saw Cut Measurements
Keywords: Railroad Technology, Birefringence Measurements, Transducers
Abstract: [From the Introduction] This report deals principally with the ultrasonic measurement of residual stress in a set of 10 cast steel wheels of U.S. manufacture. They were all from...
Other Reports
Report No. 30 - Dynamometer-Induced Residual Stress in Railroad Wheels: Ultrasonic and Saw Cut Measurements
Keywords: EMAT, Nondestructive Testing, Piezoelectric, Railroad Wheel
Abstract: This is Report Number 30 in a series covering research performed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology for the Federal Railroad Administration. This report covers...
Other Reports
Seismic Damage Assessment of Rail Structures in Japan after the January 1995 Kobe Earthquake
Keywords: Damage Repair, International Rail, Design Practice
Abstract: In the six weeks following the January 17, 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake (also called the 1995 Hyogo-Ken-Nanbu Earthquake or the Kobe Earthquake) an enormous effort has been...