Fatigue design and maintenance of railway axles

The ESIS Technical Committee 24 provides a forum for researchers and engineers who deal with structural integrity problems in modern railway system. During our latest meeting, held on 1-2 October 2014 at Politecnico di Milano, excellent talks presented results obtained within different research projects, including  EURAXLES - EBFW3  and SUSTRAIL.

Int. J. Fatigue, Vol. 86, 2016

With a bit of pride, I can say that –as the papers collected in this issue prove–  the railway axles turned, from the problem at the origin of fatigue studies, into a European excellence of industry-driven research and products. As a matter of fact most of the high speed trains and wheelsets are designed and produced by European companies.