President, Wyoming Test Fixtures Inc. In addition to mechanical tests used to determine material properties of composite materials, tests to determine structural properties are commonly performed on ...

The principles of the magnetic-perturbation method of flaw detection and the Barkhausen noise residual stress measurement method are briefly reviewed. It is suggested that they provide very powerful ...

President, Wyoming Test Fixtures Inc. Figure 1b. ASTM D8387 high bypass/low bearing test configurations. Tensile test specimen with doubler plates (left) and compressive test specimen with doubler ...

MxV Rail R&D, RAILWAY AGE, JULY 2023 ISSUE: In the North American railroad industry, bearing reconditioning is a common practice that occurs every time a bearing is removed from an axle. The ...

Written by Dustin Clasby, Senior Engineer, Transportation Technology Center, Inc. TTCI R&D, RAILWAY AGE NOVEMBER 2021 ISSUE: Roller bearing reconditioning is a common practice in the railroad industry ...