{"id":509649,"date":"2022-07-28T11:52:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T06:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=509649"},"modified":"2022-07-28T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T06:22:09","slug":"stainless-steel-the-optimum-material-choice-for-vande-bharat-trainsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/stainless-steel-the-optimum-material-choice-for-vande-bharat-trainsets\/","title":{"rendered":"Stainless steel \u2013 The optimum material choice for Vande Bharat Trainsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government\u2019s ambitious programme of manufacturing 400 new Vande Bharat trains, announced in the Union Budget, is set to change the way people travel in the country. These modern train coaches will provide a new level of safety and comfort with enhanced speed. However, the recent tenders floated by the Indian railways for these trainsets have considered aluminium as the material of choice instead of stainless steel. It is presumed that aluminium coaches may reduce the weight of the coaches and save propulsion energy. However, when other prominent parameters are weighed, stainless steel emerges as the best fit to this project, and to the government\u2019s vision for the Railways. Here\u2019s why- stainless steel,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government\u2019s ambitious programme of manufacturing 400 new Vande Bharat trains, announced in the Union Budget, is set to change the way people travel in the country. These modern train coaches will provide a new level of safety and comfort with enhanced speed. However, the recent tenders floated by the Indian railways for these trainsets have considered aluminium as the material of choice instead of stainless steel. It is presumed that aluminium coaches may reduce the weight of the coaches and save propulsion energy. However, when other prominent parameters are weighed, stainless steel emerges as the best fit to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,264,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}