Chołodecki Roots

July 20 150 years ago, was born scientist puteets Professor Antonio Innokenty Adamovich Holodetsky (1855-1922). After graduating from the Institute of Engineers of Railway Transport in 1877, he has long worked in the company of South-Western Railway: the service road, the head of technical department: Many of his scientific works of that period have important practical significance. Already in the first A. Holodetsky presented slender theory vpisyvaniya p-osnyh crews curves. Investigated the pressure outside the rail on the front wheel of the crew, identified the strain that occurs in the edges of the underside of the rail, showed the importance of the use of heavy types of rails as an important means of strengthening indigenous ways. However, heavy rails - this is a big flow of metal, and Holodetsky proved that the reduction of tension in the rails can be a reduction shpalnyh missions, improving the quality of ballast and larger sleepers. After he took up the issue shodov rolling stock to widespread crossover Williams, these go South-West roads have completely stopped. He has been a very valuable study of rail joints, rail steel, the impact of spring progiby on rails, etc. Since 1902 worked as Assistant Chief Holodetsky Railway Vologda-Vyatka, and then was chief engineer in the construction of Astrakhan line Ryazano Urals Railway.

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