March 2025

Contents

Preface

• Remarks on Special Issue on Railway
  Takuji NAKAI
  (179KB)

Technical Review

• Nippon Steel Corporation’s Characteristic Technology and Future Prospects of Product Technology for Railway Parts
  Atsushi SAKAGUCHI, Takuya OZAKI
  (2.0MB)
• Progress and Prospect of Rail for Railway
  Koichiro MATSUSHITA, Hiroyuki ISHIBASHI, Kyohei SONOYAMA 
  (1.5MB)

Technical Report

• General Rules for Design of Railway Bogie Frame Strength and Approach based on Finite Element Analysis and Strength Evaluation
  Satoshi KIKKO
  (3.1MB)
• Fatigue Strength Evaluation Method for Welded Joints of Bogie Frames for Railway Vehicles
  Takanori KATO, Taizo MAKINO, Koichi YOKOZEKI
  (2.6MB)
• Strength Design and Fatigue Damage Evaluation Method of Railway Axles for Rolling Stock
  Chihiro KOZUKA, Yoshinari YAMAMURA, Hiroki SAKAI, Taizo MAKINO, Takanori KATO
  (3.1MB)
• Evaluation of Fatigue Property of Full-scale Axles for Railway Vehicles and Its Application to Fatigue Damage Evaluation Standard
  Taizo MAKINO, Hiroki SAKAI, Chihiro KOZUKA, Yosuke YAMAZAKI, Miyuki YAMAMOTO, Kohji MINOSHIMA
  (4.3MB)
• Quality and Fatigue Strength Evaluation of Wheels for Railway Vehicles
  Yoshinari YAMAMURA, Keiichi YOMODA, Chihiro KOZUKA, Taizo MAKINO, Takanori KATO
  (1.9MB)
• Railway Wheel Web Allowable Stress Diagram
  Takanori KATO, Miyuki YAMAMOTO, Taizo MAKINO, Yoshinari YAMAMURA, Chihiro KOZUKA
  (1.9MB)
• Evaluation of Silent Properties of Wheel for High-speed Railway Vehicles
  Ayumi UENISHI, Yuki ICHIKAWA
  (6.9MB)
• Development of Wear Prediction Technology and Profile Optimization Technology for Railway Wheel Tread
  Yosuke YAMAZAKI, Takanori KATO
  (3.1MB)
• Property of Wear and Rolling Contact Fatigue Damage in High-hardness Pearlitic Steels
  Masaharu UEDA, Takeshi YAMAMOTO, Kyohei SONOYAMA
  (6.7MB)
• Development of Technologies to Improve the Reliability of Rail Flash Butt Welds
  Suo SARUWATARI, Kenji SAITA, Masaharu UEDA, Takeshi YAMAMOTO, Kyohei SONOYAMA
  (5.0MB)

Technology

• Introduction of Evaluation Testing Technology and Friction Modifier
  Shinji SAITOH, Masayuki OKANO, Kazuo FUJII, Kensuke NAGASAWA, So UCHIYAMA
  (4.8MB)

New Products

• Development of New Brake Pads for Shinkansen
  Yuki ICHIKAWA, Takanori KATO, Atsushi SAKAGUCHI, Naruo MIYABE
  (3.2MB)