Abstract
During operation of a continuous welded rail track, most of the fractures occur in welded joints. Welded joints failures take place due to various reasons including the presence of the hardened areas in the welded joint and increased local wear of the rolling surface. The paper presents the dilatometry results and the obtained continuous cooling transformation diagram of the supercooled austenite decomposition for R350LHT rail steel, which make it possible to define the critical cooling rate. It was determined that during welding in hard modes the welded joint cooling rate is lower than the critical one which leads to the martensite formation in the welded seam. The positions of critical points and phase equilibrium areas for the given rail steel were also modeled. It is proposed to use a new method for welding railroad rails based on the knowledge of dependences of the structural components dispersity and, first of all, pearlite and carbide particles formed in the process of obtaining welded joints of rails on the composition of steel and the conditions of their cooling.
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