TY - JOUR A1 - Zerbst, Uwe A1 - Beretta, S. T1 - Failure and damage tolerance aspects of railway components T2 - Engineering failure analysis N2 - Railway structures such as rails and axles are safety relevant components since any failure includes the risk of catastrophic derailment. This paper gives a brief overview on the most important potential failure scenarios driven by fatigue crack initiation and propagation and discusses the effects of important influencing factors such as vehicle weight and speed, track quality and environmental conditions. The present paper summarizes earlier work of the authors in this field. PB - Elsevier Science Publ. CY - Oxford KW - Railway rails KW - Railway axles KW - Fatigue crack propagation KW - Damage tolerance KW - Fracture mechanics PY - 2011 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/22639 AN - OPUS4-22639 SN - 1350-6307 SN - 1873-1961 VL - 18 IS - 2 SP - 534 EP - 542 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany