Condition monitoring of railway wheels and no fault found problems

International Journal of COMADEM

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 46-53

  Granström, Rikard ^a   Söderholm, Peter ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Condition monitoring; Information management; Maintenance; No Fault Found (NFF); Railway

Indexed keywords

CONDITION BASED MAINTENANCE; CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT; DATA ACCURACY; DETECTION SYSTEM; FALSE ALARMS; INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES; MANUAL INSPECTION; NO FAULT FOUND; NO FAULT FOUND (NFF); OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; RAILWAY WHEELS; TEST RESULTS; TRAIN DRIVERS; WHEEL DEFECTS; WHEEL IMPACTS; WORST CASE;

ALARM SYSTEMS; DAMAGE DETECTION; DRIVER TRAINING; ERRORS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MAINTENANCE; RAILROAD ACCIDENTS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; VEHICLE WHEELS; VEHICLES;

CONDITION MONITORING;

EID: 76249118425     PISSN: 13637681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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