ASSESSMENT OF RAIL FLAW INSPECTION DATA

This project is an analysis of the rail flaw data for the Transportation Technology Center Inc. (TTCI). Six major railroads provided TTCI with defective rail, that had been removed from service. The rail, which contained a variety of defects, was placed into a gauntlet track at the Transportation Technology Center (TTC). The gauntlet track is known as the Railflaw Detection Test Facility (RDTF) and is a railroad industry tool, in cooperation with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), to evaluate rail flaw detection technology. TTCI inspected the rail, catalogued the defects, and installed the rail in the RDTF. There are 49 defects for each inspection vehicle evaluation. To date, there have been six evaluations performed at the RDTF. This paper is the assessment of those six evaluations.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=351
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5447
• Corporate Authors:

  Mountain-Plains Consortium

  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, ND  United States  58108
• Authors:
  • Jeffrey, B D
  • Peterson, M L
• Publication Date: 1999-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 29 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Defects; Evaluation; Flaw detection; Railroad rails; Railroad tracks
• Identifier Terms: Transportation Technology Center; U.S. Federal Railroad Administration
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00770394
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MPC Report No. 99-106
• Files: NTL, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 14 1999 12:00AM