On-track testing of a power harvesting device for railroad track health monitoring

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7650, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Hansen, Sean E ^a   Pourghodrat, Abolfazl ^a   Nelson, Carl A ^a   Fateh, Mahmood ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed sensor networks; Power harvesting; Railroad safety; Railroad track displacement; Railroad track health monitoring

Indexed keywords

CROSSING GATE; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL POWER; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; HEALTH MONITORING; HIGH EFFICIENCY; LABORATORY TESTING; LED LIGHTS; LOW SPEED; MECHANICAL AMPLIFICATION; MECHANICAL DEVICE; MECHANICAL POWER; POWER HARVESTING; RAIL TIES; RAILCARS; RAILROAD INFRASTRUCTURE; RAILROAD SAFETY; REMOTE AREAS; REMOTE NETWORKS; ROAD CROSSING; SPEED SCALING; WARNING LIGHTS;

AMPLIFICATION; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ENERGY HARVESTING; HARVESTING; HEALTH; MONITORING; RAIL LAYING; RAIL MOTOR CARS; RAILROAD TRACKS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; SENSOR NETWORKS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

EID: 77953518514     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.848831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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