FIELD: rail vehicles.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to railway transport, in particular to the automatic compensation of gaps in the joints of rail tracks of great length. According to the method for compensating the expansion clearance of the continuous rail track, the bolt joints are tightened and fastened automatically depending on changes in the ambient temperature in different climatic zones, due to the installation of a block of compensators, including solid-state and liquid compensators, that are made of materials with a large coefficient of linear and volumetric expansion and installed on the continuation of butt bolts.
EFFECT: as a result, automatic maintenance of expansion clearance in butt joints is provided, that allows to control and regulate the level of stress-strain state in rails, reduces the level of fluctuations of the installed gaps during installation.
1 cl, 2 dwg
