TY - JOUR A1 - Thomas, Hans-Martin A1 - Junger, M. A1 - Hintze, H. A1 - Krull, R. A1 - Rühe, S. T1 - Pioneering inspection of railroad rails with eddy currents JF - The e-journal of nondestructive testing & ultrasonics N2 - Using a rail-inspection train, the Deutsche Bahn's system of railroads is continuously checked for traffic-induced defects. Until now, only ultrasonic inspection was used. In addition, eddy-current inspection could successfully and efficiently be used to detect and evaluate certain surface cracks - so-called head checks. There have already been reports about laboratory tests which proved the general suitability of this test method [1,2]. The next step - described here - consisted of practical trials under real-life conditions. A test system which is able to fulfil the strict requirements (test speeds of up to 100 km/h, complex probe guidance, suppression of electrical and mechanical interference, recording of data, filtering and evaluation of data) was developed. As part of the rail-inspection train and as a manual system, this inspection system was successfully tested on the Deutsche Bahn's system of railroads under real-life conditions. T2 - 15th World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing (WCNDT) CY - Roma, Italy DA - 2000-10-15 KW - Schienenprüfung PY - 2000 UR - http://www.ndt.net/article/wcndt00/papers/idn796/idn796.htm SN - 1435-4934 VL - 5 IS - 11 SP - 1 EP - 6(?) PB - NDT.net CY - Kirchwald AN - OPUS4-1010 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -