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    • Assessment of Fatigue Cracks in Rails 

      Kotsikos, G.; Grasso, Marzio (2012)
      The fatigue behaviour of cracks at the foot region of a rail subjected to bending load has been investigated. Depending on the position of initiation of a small semi-elliptical surface crack in a rail, the crack front ...
    • Damage Tolerance of Rail Vehicle Energy Absorbers 

      Kotsikos, G.; Grasso, Marzio (2012)
      Despite significant progress in the design of rail vehicles to ensure a high level of passive safety the effects of quality of manufacturing and assembly parameters on the local and global structural behavior in the event ...