US2793947A - Shelling-resistant rail - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to a railroad or similar track rail and, in particular, to a rail having a greatly increased resistance to shelling.
- I produce rails from a steel containing about the same percentage of carbon as conventional rail steel (.64.82% carbon, .601.0% manganese and .10.23% silicon) but higher in manganese and silicon and containing also a small percentage of chromium and a minute amount of vanadium.
- a rail produced from such steel by known methods has, when cooled in the usual manner from the hot-rolling temperature, a yield point in excess of 100,000 p. s. i., a tensile strength in excess of 160,000 p. s.
- I provide a rail of aluminum-killed steel, having a fine-grained (pearlitic) micro-structure and a composition within the following ranges:
- a heat of such steel is made by the practice ordinarily followed in producing fine-grained steel in the openhearth furnace. After tapping, the steel is killed by the addition of aluminum and teemed into ingot molds. The ingots are reduced to blooms and the blooms to rails by hot-rolling in the known manner. The blooms are preferably rolled at a starting temperature of from 2150-2250 F. and the rails are finished at from 19002000 F. The finished rails are cooled in air on a hot bed from 1900 F. to a temperature from 7001000 F. and are then subjected to controlled cooling in an insulated container in the known manner, to 300 F. in a period of 10 or 12 hours or more.
- a rail produced as described above, from a steel within the composition ranges given, will have a fine-grained, pearlitic micro-structure and will exhibit a remarkably high resistance to shelling.
- the improvement in this respect is evident from the fact that, under test, the improved rail showed signs of shelling only after eight million contacts by a loaded wheel, compared to one million for a rail of conventional steel.
- Table I below gives the analyses of several examples of steels suitable for producing rails in accordance with the invention.
- the rail of my invention is quite hard so it endures wear well, but is also ductile so it is not subject to early breakdown under cold-working. Taken together, these properties afford a greatly increased resistance to shelling under heavy loads, as compared to the performance of ordinary carbon-steel rails.
- the prime advantage of my rail is that it attains its hardness by air cooling from the hot-rolling temperature to the intermediate temperature below which cooling is continued at a controlled slow rate. No special post-cooling heat treatment is needed.
- alloying additions 3 chromium and vanadium
- the improved rails furthermore, may be made in existing mills as presently equipped.
- a railroad rail of-fine-grainedalloy steel consisting essentially of from- .55 to .85% carbon, from 1.1 to 1.55% manganese,- from .25 to .40% silicon, from .85 to 1.35% chromium, from. .08 to .20.% vanadium and the balance substantially iron, said rail, in the hot-rolled condition after cooling toatrnospheric temperature from the final rolling temperature, being highly. resistant to shelling under repeated heavy. impact and exhibiting an average Brinell hardness number of from 310 to 360 without heat treatment.
- a railroad rail of fine-grained alloy steel consisting essentially of'about .7% carbon, about 1.3% manganese, about 30% silicon, about 1.00% chromium, about .11% vanadium and the balance substantially iron, said rail, in the hot-rolled condition after cooling to atmospheric temperature from the final rolling temperature, being highly resistant to shelling under repeated heavy impact and exhibiting an average Brinell hardness number of from 310 to 360 without heat treatment.
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United States Patent 2,793,947 SHELLlNG-RESIS'IANT RAIL Albert N. Swanson, Wheaton, 111., assignor to United States Steel Corporation, a corporationof New Jersey No Drawing. Application December 27, 1954, Serial No. 477,930
2 Claims. (Cl. 75-126) This invention relates to a railroad or similar track rail and, in particular, to a rail having a greatly increased resistance to shelling.
Railroads carrying heavy traflic over hilly terrain have considerable diificulty in track maintenance because of the early failures of rails by shelling at the gauge corners of the rail head. Shelling is the flattening of the rail head, .usually accompanied by longitudinal splitting, resulting from the cold-working of the metal under the heavy and repeated impact of the passage of car wheels. Attempts have been made to avoid this difl'lculty by using a special-analysis steel for the rolling of rails, e. g., 3% chromium steel, or by subjecting rails after rolling to a special heat treatment. Both these remedies increase the cost of making rails. It is accordingly the object of my invention to provide a rail composed of steel having only small additions of alloying elements which will, nevertheless, have the high hardness, yield point and tensile strength necessary to resist shelling, after normal cooling from the hot-rolling temperature and without any post-cooling heat treatment.
In a preferred embodiment and practice of the invention, I produce rails from a steel containing about the same percentage of carbon as conventional rail steel (.64.82% carbon, .601.0% manganese and .10.23% silicon) but higher in manganese and silicon and containing also a small percentage of chromium and a minute amount of vanadium. A rail produced from such steel by known methods has, when cooled in the usual manner from the hot-rolling temperature, a yield point in excess of 100,000 p. s. i., a tensile strength in excess of 160,000 p. s. i., an elongation in 2" of 8-10%, a reduction in area at the fracture of 15-26% and an average (center and surface) Brinell hardness number from-310 to 365. These properties make it much more highly resistant to shelling than rails of conventional rail steel.
More particularly, I provide a rail of aluminum-killed steel, having a fine-grained (pearlitic) micro-structure and a composition within the following ranges:
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The preferred analysis is:
Percent Carbon About .70 Manganese About 1.30 Silicon About .30 Chromium About 1.00 Vanadium About .12
and the balance iron with the same exceptions as given above.
A heat of such steel is made by the practice ordinarily followed in producing fine-grained steel in the openhearth furnace. After tapping, the steel is killed by the addition of aluminum and teemed into ingot molds. The ingots are reduced to blooms and the blooms to rails by hot-rolling in the known manner. The blooms are preferably rolled at a starting temperature of from 2150-2250 F. and the rails are finished at from 19002000 F. The finished rails are cooled in air on a hot bed from 1900 F. to a temperature from 7001000 F. and are then subjected to controlled cooling in an insulated container in the known manner, to 300 F. in a period of 10 or 12 hours or more.
When finally cooled, a rail produced as described above, from a steel within the composition ranges given, will have a fine-grained, pearlitic micro-structure and will exhibit a remarkably high resistance to shelling. The improvement in this respect is evident from the fact that, under test, the improved rail showed signs of shelling only after eight million contacts by a loaded wheel, compared to one million for a rail of conventional steel.
Table I below gives the analyses of several examples of steels suitable for producing rails in accordance with the invention.
Table I Heat No. 0 Mn st or v P s Cu Ni Al Table II below gives the physical properties of the steels listed in Table I.
Table II Brinell Yield Tensil Percent Percent Heat No. Hard- Point, Strength, Elong. Redue.
ness p. s. i. p. s. i. in 2" in Area It will be apparent from the foregoing that the rail of my invention is quite hard so it endures wear well, but is also ductile so it is not subject to early breakdown under cold-working. Taken together, these properties afford a greatly increased resistance to shelling under heavy loads, as compared to the performance of ordinary carbon-steel rails. The prime advantage of my rail however, is that it attains its hardness by air cooling from the hot-rolling temperature to the intermediate temperature below which cooling is continued at a controlled slow rate. No special post-cooling heat treatment is needed. Finally, the amounts of alloying additions 3 (chromium and vanadium) are so small that they do not increase the cost very much. The improved rails, furthermore, may be made in existing mills as presently equipped.
Although I have disclosed herein the prefen'ed embodiment of my invention, 1 intendto.cover--as welliany change or modification therein which may be made Without-departing from the spirit and scopeof the invention;
I- claim:
1. A railroad rail of-fine-grainedalloy steel consisting essentially of from- .55 to .85% carbon, from 1.1 to 1.55% manganese,- from .25 to .40% silicon, from .85 to 1.35% chromium, from. .08 to .20.% vanadium and the balance substantially iron, said rail, in the hot-rolled condition after cooling toatrnospheric temperature from the final rolling temperature, being highly. resistant to shelling under repeated heavy. impact and exhibiting an average Brinell hardness number of from 310 to 360 without heat treatment.
2. A railroad rail of fine-grained alloy steel consisting essentially of'about .7% carbon, about 1.3% manganese, about 30% silicon, about 1.00% chromium, about .11% vanadium and the balance substantially iron, said rail, in the hot-rolled condition after cooling to atmospheric temperature from the final rolling temperature, being highly resistant to shelling under repeated heavy impact and exhibiting an average Brinell hardness number of from 310 to 360 without heat treatment.
References Cited inthe file of thispatent,
Alloys of Iron and: Chromium, .Low- Chromium, vol. 1, page 223. Edited by. Kinzel and Crafts. Published by the McGraW-HillBook Co., New York.
The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, vol. 2, of 1914, page 372.
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1. A RAILROAD RAIL OF FINE-GRAINED ALLOY STEEL CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF FROM .55 TO .85% CARBON, FROM 1.1 TO 1.55% MANGANESE, FROM .25 TO .40% SILICON, FROM .85 TO 1.35% CHROMIUM FROM .08 TO .20% VANADIUM AND THE BALANCE SUBSTANTIALLY IRON, SAID RAIL, IN THE HOT-ROLLED CONDITION AFTER COOLING TO ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE FROM THE FINAL ROLLING TEMPERATURE, BEING HIGHLY RESISTANT TO SHELLING UNDER REPEATED HEAVY IMPACT AND EXHIBITING AN AVERAGE BRINELL HARDNESS NUMBER OF FROM 310 TO 360 WITHOUT HEAT TREATMENT.
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US4575397A (en) * | 1983-10-04 | 1986-03-11 | Krupp Stahl Aktiengesellschaft | Rail having high resistance to wear in its head and high resistance to rupture in its foot |
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