Effect of Railcar Wheel Tire Profiles on the Contact Stress Level in Subway Rails

Strength of Materials - The statistical analysis performed on the defectiveness of rails in the Kiev subway railway shows that the main cause of the occurrence of most defects is the contact...     

Classification of the Uncertainty of Measurements

A discussion is given of questions arising when classifying uncertainties from the point of view of the structure of the measurement process.     

Multicriterion differential games

Translated from Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz, No. 1, pp. 24–33, January–February, 1994.     

Effect of temperature and cyclic heating on the structure and strength of glass textolite

The article established the regularities of change of the physicomechanical characteristics and strength of glass textolites in single and repeated thermal loading. It shows that under multiple loading the intense loss of strength of the investigated materials is due to increased porosity on account of the large number of microcracks appearing in the structure. A correlation is obtained between the elastic and strength characteristics and porosity in dependence on the temperature of multiple heating which in the first approximation is described by a polynomial of second degree with respect to temperature, multiplied by the reciprocal of porosity.Translated from Problemy Prochnosti, No. 6, pp. 53–58, June, 1991.     

Comparison of different methods of modeling turbulent combustion in a boundary layer

Three methods of modeling a chemical reaction in the combustion of ethanol injected into the boundary layer through a porous plate are compared. In calculations of the average velocity and temperature and also heat-transfer coefficients, simple models of combustion are shown to be close in accuracy to a model that takes into complete account the kinetics of all reactions occurring during combustion. Simple models fail to determine the composition of reaction products, and it is necessary to take into account the formation rate of each substance entrained in combustion.Translated from Fizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 37–42, July–August, 1996.