Axle box acceleration: Measurement and simulation for detection of short track defects

Wear

Volumn 271, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 349-356

  Molodova, Marija ^a   Li, Zili ^a   Dollevoet, Rolf ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Infra Management Railsystems   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Axle box acceleration; Detection; Short track defects; Simulation; Squats; Welds

Indexed keywords

DETECTION; DYNAMIC CONTACT FORCES; EARLY DETECTION; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; INSULATED JOINT; MEASUREMENT AND SIMULATION; SHORT TRACK DEFECTS; SIMULATION; SQUATS; TECHNICAL STATE; THERMITES; WHEEL-RAIL INTERFACE;

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETERS; AXLES; WELDING; WELDS; WHEELS;

DEFECTS;

EID: 79955755878     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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