Rail Crack Monitoring Using Acoustic Emission Technique

• Main Author: Li, Dan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Acoustical engineering.; Materials science.; Acoustics.; Engineering Acoustics.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Literature review
• Propagation features and source location
• Sizing of fatigue cracks
• Field monitoring of rail cracks
• Conclusions and future work.