Monitoring of rail corrugation growth due to irregular wear on a railway metro curve

Wear

Volumn 267, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 556-561

  Torstensson, P T ^a   Nielsen, J C O ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Metro curve; Railway noise; Roughness measurement; Short pitch rail corrugation

Indexed keywords

DRY WEATHERS; FREQUENCY INTERVALS; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION; LOW FREQUENCY; METRO CURVE; METRO LINES; NUMERICAL TOOLS; PASS-BY NOISE; PEAK-TO-PEAK MAGNITUDE; RAIL CORRUGATION; RAIL GRINDING; RAIL ROUGHNESS; RAILWAY NETWORK; RAILWAY NOISE; REPEATED MEASUREMENTS; ROLLING NOISE; ROUGHNESS LEVEL; SHARP CURVE; SHORT-PITCH RAIL CORRUGATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STOCKHOLM; TRACK DIRECTION; TRAIN SPEED;

GRINDING (COMMINUTION); GRINDING (MACHINING); NOISE POLLUTION; RAILROADS; ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

RAILS;

EID: 65749090442     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2009.01.046     Document Type: Article

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