Railway pamphlets

Railway pamphlets
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1853
Genre: Railroads
ISBN:

A made-up series consisting of pamphlets, brochures, articles, etc. pertaining to railways with each volume devoted to a particular subject.

Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 784
Release: 1869
Genre: Civil engineering
ISBN:

Vols. 39-214 (1874/75-1921/22) have a section 2 containing "Other selected papers"; issued separately, 1923-35, as the institution's Selected engineering papers.

High Cycle Fatigue

High Cycle Fatigue
Author: Theodore Nicholas
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2006-07-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080458874

Dr Theodore Nicholas ran the High Cycle Fatigue Program for the US Air Force between 1995 and 2003 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and is one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, having authored over 250 papers in leading archival journals and books. Bringing his plethora of expertise to this book, Dr Nicholas discusses the subject of high cycle fatigue (HCF) from an engineering viewpoint in response to a series of HCF failures in the USAF and the concurrent realization that HCF failures in general were taking place universally in both civilian and military engines. Topic covered include: - Constant life diagrams - Fatigue limits under combined LCF and HCF - Notch fatigue under HCF conditions - Foreign object damage (FOD) - Brings years of the Author's US Air Force experience in high cycle fatigue together in one text - Discusses HCF in the context of recent international military and civilian engine failures

Death Rode the Rails

Death Rode the Rails
Author: Mark Aldrich
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2006-04-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780801882364

"The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output - shaped by labor markets and public policy - motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety."--BOOK JACKET.