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Due to the repeated passages of the wheels, the rail is subjected to time-dependent, multiaxial, non-proportional, mixed mode cyclic loading. Under these conditions of loading, the fatigue cracks can appear in the surface or subsurface of the rails. This paper attempts to investigate the multiaxial fatigue crack growth in rails using 3D numerical simulations taking into account the frictional contact...