TY - CONF A1 - Pohl, Rainer A1 - Krull, R. A1 - Meierhofer, R. T1 - A new eddy current instrument in a grinding train N2 - The recognition of surface damage on rails is of critical importance in order to guarantee a high level of safety for normal train operation. Without early recognition systems, defect damage (e.g. cracks) in the rail, will increase in size and can eventually lead to fracture of the rail. Special grinding trains are in general use for rail maintenance and are employed to machine down worn rails and prevent surface damage in an early stadium. The company SPENO INTERNATIONAL SA along with the BAM, DB AG and other partners have integrated an eddy current instrument into a grinding train. The equipment has been developed for detection of Head Check type defects and provides information on defect position and depth. Initial experiments were presented at the DACH-conference 2004 in Salzburg. This system has been continually developed and as will be shown is ready for practical application. It is named HC Grinding Scanner. The actual measuring system and results will be presented. T2 - 9th European Conference on NDT CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2006-09-25 KW - Eddy current testing KW - Rail grinding train KW - Head checking PY - 2006 UR - http://www.ndt.net/article/ecndt2006/doc/P178.pdf SN - 3-931381-86-2 SP - 1 EP - 7(?) PB - European Federation for Non-Destructive Testing CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-14019 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - 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 - 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 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 - TY - GEN A1 - Tscharntke, Dirk A1 - Heckel, Thomas A1 - Boehm, Rainer A1 - Erhard, Anton A1 - Krull, R. A1 - Lützner, J. A1 - Hintze, H. T1 - Development of in-service rail inspection systems using phased arrays PY - 2012 SN - 978-3-87155-608-1 SN - 1618-4513 VL - 4 SP - 182 EP - 187 PB - DVS Media GmbH CY - Düsseldorf ET - English Edition AN - OPUS4-26828 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -