Rail Crack Monitoring Using Acoustic Emission Technique

This thesis provides an innovative strategy for rail crack monitoring using the acoustic emission (AE) technique. The field study presented is a significant improvement on laboratory studies in the literature in terms of complex rail profile and crack conditions as well as high operational noise. AE...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Li, Dan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
Series:Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Literature review
  • Propagation features and source location
  • Sizing of fatigue cracks
  • Field monitoring of rail cracks
  • Conclusions and future work