This document recommends standards for joining, repair,maintenance, inspection of rail welds, and related rail components.For the purposes of this document, rails include railroad rails,crane rails, guard rails, electrical contact rails, girder rails,and retarder rails. Classification of rails is based on theAmerican Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association(AREMA) specifications governing the manufacture of rails.
Related rail components include rail crossings and turnoutswhich further include switch points, stock rails, switch pointguards, spacer blocks, connecting rods, switch rods, plates, frogs,and frog components.
The use of track components reconditioned by welding is adecision of the rail owner outside the scope of this document. Thisdocument does not include road bed maintenance except where itaffects the expected life of the repair.
Welding processes addressed in this document include shieldedmetal arc welding (SMAW), gas metal arc welding (GMAW), flux coredarc welding (FCAW), flash welding (FW), and thermite welding (TW).See Annex A and the Welding Handbook, Volumes 2 and 3,Ninth Edition for details on these processes.
- Edition:
- 3
- Published:
- 01/01/2013
- ANSI:
- ANSI Approved
- Number of Pages:
- 66
- File Size:
- 1 file , 1.3 MB
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