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The effects of wheel/rail impact loads are particularly important in the design and use of modern concrete-tie track structures. The development of a computer model for predicting impact loads due to wheel or rail running-surface geometry errors is described in this paper.
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Ahlbeck et al. (1985) studied this question.
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