Abstract
Society has become dependent on trains to provide
the means for freight and transport services and with so many
people being dependent on these services safety must be taken
as the utmost priority. The aim of this research project is to
characterise the Brake block samples of a Freight Rail
container wagon using tribological properties for the effect of
friction and wear, hardness tests to investigate the mechanical
property and microstructure analysis and material
composition in different environmental conditions using
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive
Spectrometry (EDS.