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Detection of Rail Defects Using NDT Methods [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 The rapid development of high-speed and heavy-haul railways caused rapid rail defects and sudden failure. This requires more advanced rail inspection, i.e., real-time accurate identification and evaluation for rail defects. However, existing applications
Longhui Xiong +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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Research on steel rail surface defects detection based on improved YOLOv4 network
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2023 IntroductionThe surface images of steel rails are extremely difficult to detect and recognize due to the presence of interference such as light changes and texture background clutter during the acquisition process.MethodsTo improve the accuracy of ...
Zengzhen Mi, Ren Chen, Shanshan Zhao
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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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Detection of Surface Defects on Railway Tracks Based on Deep Learning
IEEE Access, 2022 The detection of rail surface defects is very important in railway transportation. However, the edge defects on both sides of the rail and the multi-scale variation between different types of defects both pose challenges to the detection of rail surface ...
Maoli Wang +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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Technical requirements for the selection of rail grades [PDF]
Tehnika, 2022 The most common types of rail defects on modern railway lines occur due to the rolling contact fatigue of rail steel. One of the methods to slow down the development of these rail defects is the application of new steel grades with increased hardness in ...
Popović Zdenka J. +2 more
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UAVs in rail damage image diagnostics supported by deep-learning networks
Open Engineering, 2021 The article uses images from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for rail diagnostics. The main advantage of such a solution compared to traditional surveys performed with measuring vehicles is the elimination of decreased train traffic.
Bojarczak Piotr, Lesiak Piotr
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An Ultrasonic Guided Wave Mode Selection and Excitation Method in Rail Defect Detection
Applied Sciences, 2019 Different guided wave mode has different sensitivity to the defects of rail head, rail web and rail base in the detection of rail defects using ultrasonic guided wave.
Hongmei Shi +4 more
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A UAV-Based Visual Inspection Method for Rail Surface Defects
Applied Sciences, 2018 Rail surface defects seriously affect the safety of railway systems. At present, human inspection and rail vehicle inspection are the main approaches for the detection of rail surface defects.
Yunpeng Wu +3 more
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