Railways rails - Metallurgical aspects : Manufacturing processes

Manufacturing processes
Railways rails - Metallurgical aspects

Author : Raymond DEROCHE

Review date: February 13, 2026 | Lire en français

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2. Manufacturing processes

The classic chain consisted of :

blast furnace ironmaking with hematite pig iron (low phosphorus);
oxygen converter refining ;
no in-pocket treatment apart from deoxidation with aluminum; IRSID then introduced bubbling with argon through a porous plug underneath the pocket to better settle aluminates (figure

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(1) - TIMOSHENKO (S.) - Théorie de l'élasticité - Librairie Polytechnique CH. BÉRANGER (1948).
(2) - GRASSIE (S.L.) - Mechanics and Fatigue in Wheel Rail Contact - Elsevier (1991).
(3) - KALKER (J.J.) - . – Three Dimensional Elastic...

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