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Assessing Head Check Crack Growth by Eddy-Current Testing

Stefan Marschnig    
Markus Loidolt    
Dieter Knabl    
Alwine Steinecker and Reinhard Popp    

Resumen

Managing head checks is a crucial task for an infrastructure manager as in case of deep cracks, rails can break and, thus, accidents might be the consequence. Many infrastructure managers use vehicle-mounted eddy-current testing for detecting cracks. This is sufficient for guaranteeing safe railway operation in applying a reactive maintenance regime removing cracks of a pre-defined depth. Moving this towards a predictive maintenance regime is only possible through assessing the crack growth. Establishing a stable deterioration function needs a sound data basis including a proper re-positioning of the test results of consecutive testing campaigns. This paper presents the results achieved from analysing the eddy-current testing campaigns of 10 years on a main line of the Austrian railway network and calculating a crack growth function as regression to field data. While it is possible to derive stable functions, the testing frequency needs to be shortened in order to move further to predictive maintenance.

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