A railway measurement system to evaluate the wheel-rail interaction quality

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1583-1589

  Attivissimo, Filippo ^a   Danese, Angelo ^a,b   Giaquinto, Nicola ^a   Sforza, Patrizia ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b MERMEC SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Rail transportation; Rail transportation maintenance; Rail transportation reliability; Rail transportation testing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MAINTENANCE; RAILS; RELIABILITY THEORY; VEHICLE WHEELS;

RAIL TRANSPORTATION MAINTENANCE; RAIL TRANSPORTATION RELIABILITY; RAIL TRANSPORTATION TESTING; RAILWAY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; WHEEL-RAIL INTERACTION;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 34648833260     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.903583     Document Type: Article

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