A Review on Rail Defect Detection Systems Based on Wireless Sensors [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 Small defects on the rails develop fast under the continuous load of passing trains, and this may lead to train derailment and other disasters. In recent years, many types of wireless sensor systems have been developed for rail defect detection. However,
Yuliang Zhao +8 more
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A 3D Laser Profiling System for Rail Surface Defect Detection
Sensors, 2017 Rail surface defects such as the abrasion, scratch and peeling often cause damages to the train wheels and rail bearings. An efficient and accurate detection of rail defects is of vital importance for the safety of railway transportation. In the past few
Zhimin Xiong +3 more
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Non-Destructive Testing Technology for Shallow Subsurface Defects in Rails: A Review with Focus on Ultrasonic Surface Wave Methods [PDF]
SensorsWith increasing rail traffic intensity, reliable detection of shallow subsurface rail damage is essential for operational safety. This critical narrative review evaluates non-destructive testing technologies relevant to defects whose active crack front ...
Tianyu Song +5 more
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Rail Surface Defect Detection Based on An Improved YOLOv5s
Applied Sciences, 2023 As the operational time of the railway increases, rail surfaces undergo irreversible defects. Once the defects occur, it is easy for them to develop rapidly, which seriously threatens the safe operation of trains.
Hui Luo, Lianming Cai, Chenbiao Li
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RSDNet: A New Multiscale Rail Surface Defect Detection Model
SensorsThe rapid and accurate identification of rail surface defects is critical to the maintenance and operational safety of the rail. For the problems of large-scale differences in rail surface defects and many small-scale defects, this paper proposes a rail ...
Jingyi Du +4 more
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Natural Rail Surface Defect Inspection and Analysis Using 16-Channel Eddy Current System
Applied Sciences, 2021 Trains are used as the fastest mode of transportation for both people and cargo. The train moves along a special path called “rail”, where fatigue can be accumulated due to wheel-rail contact load as a result of continuous train operation. Consistent and
Se-Gon Kwon +4 more
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FS-RSDD: Few-Shot Rail Surface Defect Detection with Prototype Learning
Sensors, 2023 As an important component of the railway system, the surface damage that occurs on the rails due to daily operations can pose significant safety hazards.
Yongzhi Min +3 more
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An Improved Feature Pyramid Network and Metric Learning Approach for Rail Surface Defect Detection
Applied Sciences, 2023 When deep learning methods are used to detect rail surface defects, the training accuracy declines due to small defects and an insufficient number of samples.
Zhendong He +4 more
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Codiing system for rail defects in accordance with IRS 70712 [PDF]
Tehnika, 2021 Rail defects due to the rolling contact fatigue have a significant place in the Handbook of Rail Defects in the framework of UIC Code 712 in 2002. The paper presents the system for coding and classification of rail defects according to UIC recommendation
Popović Zdenka J. +3 more
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Ensemble model for rail surface defects detection.
PLoS ONE, 2022 The detection of rail surface defects is vital for high-speed rail maintenance and management. The CNN-based computer vision approach has been proved to be a strong detection tool widely used in various industrial scenarios.
Hailang Li +5 more
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