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Monitoring Longitudinal Rail Stress Using Diffuse Ultrasonic Backscatter

Document Series:
Technical Reports
Author:
  • Federal Railroad Administration
Report Number
DOT/FRA/ORD-17/15
Office
RDI-21
Subject:
Rail and Infrastructure Integrity
Keywords:
stress in rail; ultrasonic transducers; ultrasound scattering; theoretical model of the scattering process; prototype devices for stress estimations in rail; laboratory and field tests
Document
Monitoring Longitudinal Rail Stress.pdf (4.9 MB)

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Last updated: Friday, September 15, 2017