Single grain crushing tests on two sand types used for wheel-rail sanding

<p>This data set contains the data of single grain crushing tests. Tested were two types of sand, which are used to increase friction in wheel-rail contacts.<br> Please see the following paper for a detailed description of experiments:<br> &quot; Suhr, B.; Skipper, W.A.; Lewis, R.; Six, K. Sanded Wheel&ndash;Rail Contacts: Experiments on Sand Crushing Behaviour. <em>Lubricants</em> <strong>2023</strong>, <em>11</em>, 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants11020038 &quot;</p> <p>Two types of experiments were conducted, both of them were single grain crushing tests. First, initial breakage tests were conducted. Second, single grain crushing tests were conducted under realistic wheel-rail load including subsequent grain/fragment crushing.<br> The material tested was two types of sand used in railways, called AT sand (used in Austria) and GB sand (used in the UK).<br> Both types of sand are tested under dry and wet contact conditions.<br> Please see the referenced paper for details on the conducted experiments.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>