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DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF STRESSES AND EVALUATION OF SERVICE LIFE OF JOINTED RAILS Hiroo KATAOKA, Yuya OIKAWA, Noritsugi ABE Osamu WAKATSUKI Track Structure Component Group, Railway Technical Research Institute 2-8-38, Hikaricho, Kokubunji-shi, TOKYO,185-8540, Japan hiroo@rtri.or.jp KEYWORDS: jointed rail, stress, fish bolt hole, fatigue, service life ABSTRACT Jointed rails are replaced periodically in Japan. Their service life is governed mainly by the fracture at the joints. To evaluate the fatigue life of jointed rails, it is necessary to clarify the stress distribution around fish bolt holes and an S-N curve of jointed rails. Therefore, we carried out field tests, static loading tests in a laboratory to measure the stresses around the fish bolt holes, and further dynamic stress analysis of jointed rails and bending fatigue tests of rails used in the field. The dynamic stress analysis model is composed of a beam model to calculate dynamic wheel/rail contact force and a solid model to calculate stress distribution from that contact force. These models were validated using field test data. Based on the study results, we established a method to evaluate the fatigue life of jointed rails. In this method, stresses are calculated for several combined conditions of jointed rail, vehicle type and vehicle speed. The fatigue life was calculated by applying the stresses to the S-N curve. As a result, the rail replacement period have a potential to be extended except for the case of heavy wear between fishplate and rail. INTRODUCTION It is important to prevent rail fractures to ensure safety of vehicle running. An ultrason