%0 journal article
%@ 0013-7944
%A Zerbst, U., Maedler, K., Hintze, H.

%D 2005
%J Engineering Fracture Mechanics
%N 2
%P 163-194 
%R doi:10.1016/j.engfracmech.2003.11.010
%T Fracture Mechanics in Railway Applications - An Overview
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2003.11.010
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%X With respect to railway wheels it is distinguished between block-braked and disk-braked wheels and between surface induced and subsurface induced cracks. Problems such as the residual stress field generated by thermal stresses during the braking process, special aspects of rolling contact fatigue (out-of phase loading, mixed mode crack extension, the role of a lubricant, crack branching, etc.) are introduced. A brief survey of the published work and the workshop presentations on railway wheels is given.