Effective Fatigue Evaluation on Rubber Mounts for Rail Vehicles

Figure 7

The sandwich mount and its experimental results. (a) The photo of the sandwich mount. (b) The load-deflection curve of the sandwich mount in the vertical direction from the test. (c) The failed sandwich spring at approximately 380 K cycles: the hot spot was around the second layer of rubber and close to the interleaf.

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