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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Diffuse Ultrasonic Wave-Based Damage Detection of Railway Tracks Using PZT/FBG Hybrid Sensing System.

Xiangtao Sun, Chuanrui Guo, Lei Yuan, Qingzhao Kong, Yiqing Ni

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Xiangtao SunDepartment of Disaster Mitigation for Structures, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Chuanrui GuoInstitute of Urban Smart Transportation & Safety Maintenance, College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7141-2972
Lei YuanNational Rail Transit Electrification and Automation Engineering Technology Research Center (Hong Kong Branch), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong 999077, China.
Qingzhao KongDepartment of Disaster Mitigation for Structures, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9577-4540
Yiqing NiNational Rail Transit Electrification and Automation Engineering Technology Research Center (Hong Kong Branch), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong 999077, China.

Funding

Hong Kong, RGC, Research Impact Fund R5020-18Ministry of Science and Technology of China and the Innovation and Technology Commission of Hong Kong SAR Government to the Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Rail Transit Electri-fication and Automation Engineering Technology Research Center K-BBY1
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Abstract

Damage detection of railway tracks is vital to ensure normal operation and safety of the rail transit system. Piezoelectric sensors, which are widely utilized to receive ultrasonic wave, may be disturbed in the railway system due to strong electromagnetic interference (EMI). In this work, a hybrid ultrasonic sensing system is proposed and validated by utilizing a lead-zirconate-titanate (PZT) actuator and a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor to evaluate damage conditions of the railway tracks. The conventional ultrasonic guided wave-based method utilizing direct wave to detect damages is limited by the complex data analysis procedure and low sensitivity to incipient damage. Diffuse ultrasonic wave (DUW), referring to later arrival wave packets, is chosen in this study to evaluate structural conditions of railway tracks due to its high sensitivity, wider sensing range, and easy implementation. Damages with different sizes and locations are introduced on the railway track to validate the sensitivity and sensing range of the proposed method. Two damage indices are defined from the perspective of energy attenuation and waveform distortion. The experimental results demonstrate that the DUW signals received by the hybrid sensing system could be used for damage detection of the railway tracks and the waveform-distortion-based index is more efficient than the energy-based index.

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UltrasonicsUltrasonic Wavesdamage detectiondiffuse ultrasonic wavesfiber Bragg gratinghigh-speed railway

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PMID35408118
PMCPMC9003346

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