TY - GEN A1 - Tscharntke, Dirk A1 - Heckel, Thomas A1 - Boehm, Rainer A1 - Erhard, Anton A1 - Krull, R. A1 - Lützner, J. A1 - Hintze, H. ED - Forde, M. C. T1 - Development of ultrasonic railway inspection systems using phased array methods T2 - 6th Railway Engineering Conference CY - London, England, UK DA - 2003-04-30 KW - NDT KW - Ultrasonic KW - Phased array KW - Railway KW - Inspection KW - Directivity pattern KW - Crack analysis/sizing PY - 2003 SN - 0-947644-51-2 PB - Engineering Technics Press CY - Edinburgh AN - OPUS4-2487 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Heckel, Thomas A1 - Casperson, Ralf A1 - Rühe, Sven A1 - Mook, Gerhard T1 - Signal processing for non-destructive testing of railway tracks N2 - Increased speed, heavier loads, altered material and modern drive systems result in an increasing number of rail flaws. The appearance of these flaws also changes continually due to the rapid change in damage mechanisms of modern rolling stock. Hence, interpretation has become difficult when evaluating non-destructive rail testing results. Due to the changed interplay between detection methods and flaws, the recorded signals may result in unclassified types of rail flaws. Methods for automatic rail inspection (according to defect detection and classification) undergo continual development. Signal processing is a key technology to master the challenge of classification and maintain resolution and detection quality, independent of operation speed. The basic ideas of signal processing, based on the Glassy-Rail-Diagram for classification purposes, are presented herein. Examples for the detection of damages caused by rolling contact fatigue also are given, and synergetic effects of combined evaluation of diverse inspection methods are shown. T2 - QNDE - Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation CY - Provo, UT, USA DA - 16.07.2017 KW - Rail KW - Inspection KW - Train KW - Ultrasound KW - Signal KW - Processing PY - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5031528 VL - 1949 SP - 030005-1 EP - 030005-7 AN - OPUS4-47217 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -