TRACKING DOWN JOINT-AREA RAIL DEFECTS

Now by using hand-held testing devices Santa Fe is testing joint-bar areas with ultrasonic devices for detecting bolthole cracks and head-and-web separations. A mirror is used to reflect light into joint gap to reveal presence of defects. Stepped-up method of joint-area inspection has produced big increase in detected defects.

• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This abstract is also contained in "A Bibliography on the Design and Performance of Rail Track Structures", September 1974, RRIS #072794, which was prepared for the Urban Mass Transportation Administration.
• Corporate Authors:

  Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation

  508 Birch Street
  Bristol, CT  United States  06010
• Publication Date: 1970-7

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 21-23
• Serial:
  • Railway Track and Structures
  • Volume: 66
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-9016

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Defects; Detection and identification; Equipment tests; Inspection; Maintenance of way; Rail joints; Railroad rails; Ultrasonic tests
• Uncontrolled Terms: Rail flaw detection
• Old TRIS Terms: Rail inspection; Test equipment
• Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00072815
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 11 1976 12:00AM