Determination of rail vertical profile through inertial methods

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 14-23

  Real, J ^a   Salvador, P ^a   Montalban L ^a   Bueno, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fourier transform; inertial methods; rail profile; railway maintenance; track monitoring

Indexed keywords

DATA INPUT; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; INERTIAL METHOD; INPUT FUNCTIONS; INVERSE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MAINTENANCE WORK; METROPOLITAN RAILWAY; MONITORING PROCESS; OPTICAL METHODS; OUTPUT DATA; OUTPUT FUNCTIONS; RAILWAY AXLES; RAILWAY MAINTENANCE; REAL MEASUREMENTS; TIME DOMAIN; TRACK MONITORING; VERTICAL ACCELERATIONS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

CONDITION MONITORING; LOCOMOTIVES; MAINTAINABILITY; OPTIMIZATION; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; RAILS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 79952945196     PISSN: 09544097     EISSN: 20413017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544097JRRT353     Document Type: Article

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