Author:Loveday, Philip WDate:Jul 2012Cost-effective NDE of the vast length of aging railway track around the world remains a challenge for the community. Continuously welded rail is installed in tension but temperature changes can result in rail buckling if the initial tension ...Read more
Author:Loveday, Philip WDate:Apr 2012Cost-effective NDE of the vast length of ageing railway track around the world remains challenge for the community. Since continuously welded railway lines may be thought of as one-dimensional elastic waveguides, they are natural candidates ...Read more
Author:Loveday, Philip W; Wilcox, PDDate:Mar 2010Guided wave propagation has been proposed as a means to monitor the axial loads in continuously welded railway rails although no practical system has been developed. In this paper, the influence of axial load on the guided wave propagation ...Read more