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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Acoustic Roughness Measurement of Railway Tracks: Running Surface Detection and Compensation of Lateral Movements for Optical Measurements on a Train.

Florian Mauz, Remo Wigger, Loris Griesbaum, Tobias Wahl, Michal Kuffa, Konrad Wegener

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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6 authors.

Florian MauzInstitute for Machine Tools and Manufacturing, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-9007-6708
Remo WiggerInstitute for Machine Tools and Manufacturing, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6896-332X
Loris GriesbaumInstitute for Machine Tools and Manufacturing, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Tobias WahlInspire AG, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4200-3301
Michal KuffaInstitute for Machine Tools and Manufacturing, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Konrad WegenerInstitute for Machine Tools and Manufacturing, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.

Funding

Federal Office for the Environment 1337000624Federal Office of Transport 1337000624
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rolling noise is a significant contributor to railway noise. Wheel and rail roughness are decisive for the emitted noise level. An optical measurement method installed on a moving train is suitable for closer monitoring of the rail surface condition. A measurement setup based on the chord method requires the sensors to be positioned in a straight line along the direction of measurement and in a stable lateral position. Measurements should always be performed within the shiny and uncorroded running surface, even when there are lateral movements of the train. In this study, concepts for the detection of the running surface and the compensation of lateral movements are investigated in a laboratory setting. The setup consists of a vertical lathe with a ring-shaped workpiece that incorporates an implemented artificial running surface. The detection of the running surface based on laser triangulation sensors and a laser profilometer is investigated. It is shown that the running surface can be detected using a laser profilometer that measures the intensity of the reflected laser light. It is possible to detect the lateral position and the width of the running surface. A linear positioning system is proposed to adjust the lateral position of the sensors based on the running surface detection of the laser profilometer. When the lateral position of the measuring sensor is disturbed by a movement with a wavelength of 18.85 m, the linear positioning system can keep the laser triangulation sensor inside the running surface for 98.44% of the measured data points at a velocity of approximately 7.5 km h-1. The mean positioning error is 1.40 mm. By implementing the proposed system on the train, future studies can be conducted to examine the lateral position of the running surface as a function of the various operational parameters of the train.

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AcousticsLasersacoustic roughnesschord methodcondition monitoringlaser profilometerlaser triangulationrail profilesrailway rolling noise

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PMID37420928
PMCPMC10301609

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