A railway infrastructure capable of supporting a high frequency of light and heavy traffic, sometimes at high speed, requires the implementation of a high quality... Read More

A statistical study of railway fastening insulating plates from various points of the Spanish territory reveals that high responsibility structural components injected with a hygroscopic... Read More

Thermoplastic elastomer railway pads, placed between the base of the steel rails and the prestressed concrete sleepers, play a major role in the general maintenance... Read More

This article proposes an analysis method for the identification of the damage caused in a reinforced polyamide fatigue process through the evolution of the generated... Read More

Determination of the Paris’ law constants requires the continuous measure of the crack length. This measure has usually been performed using methods based on electric... Read More

Some of the parts manufactured with engineering polymers such as short fiberglass reinforced polyamide (PA) are rejected for failing quality controls or are removed due... Read More

High-speed lines in Saudi Arabia are subjected to sandstorms. These environmental conditions are not established at laboratory level. This work studies the influence of the... Read More

Two different methodologies for analysing the deterioration of mechanical properties due to hydrogen embrittlement by means of the small punch test (SPT) have been studied.... Read More

There is large experience on the determination of crack propagation initiation parameters in SCC and HE scenarios by fracture mechanics tests. Although there are satisfying... Read More

In the present study, a new small punch test (SPT) methodology has been used to analyse the effect of hydrogen embrittlement on the tensile properties... Read More