TC 24

Technical Commitee - Integrity of Railway Structures

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Meeting hosted by DGZfP (German society for non-destructive testing)
Wittenberge, 24-25 September 2017

The next ESIS TC24 workshop "Integrity of Railway Structures" was held in Wittenberge/Germany, Monday 25. to Tuesday 26. of September 2017.

The workshop,organized by Thomas Heckel (thomas.heckel@bam.de) and Ronald Krull, has been organized by BAM (Federal institute for materials research) at DGZfP training facilities Wittenberge, Schillerplatz 3, 19322 Wittenberge/Germany.

The workshop has provided an opportunity for the axle community to meet up again and to discuss results of previous projects and, especially, from RAAI aiming at the determination of inspection intervals based on a fatigue crack growth and corrosion-fatigue assessment (see RAAI project).

Session 1

AUTHOR(S) TITLE
D. Kanzler
(Applied Validation of NDT, Germany)
How reliable are the results of my NDT process? A scientific answer to a practical everyday question
A. Zoega and J.H. Kurz
(DB Systemtechnik, Brandenburg-Kirchmoser, Germany)
Evaluation of the Ultrasonic Inspection of Hollow Axles by the POD Method
U. Volz 1, H. Beier2, S. Beretta 3
(1: arXes-tolina, Dresden, Germany)
(2: arXes-tolina, Berlin, Germany)
(3: Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Inspection Interval Software for Railway Axles
T. Heckel1, R. Boehm1, W. Spruch2, S. Jacob2
(1: BAM, Berlin, Germany)
(2: Buro fur Technische Diagnostik, Brandeburg, Germany)
Increasing the Sensitivity of Ultrasonic Phased Array Wheel Set Axle Inspection by Using Signal Processing

Session 2

AUTHOR(S) TITLE
S. Beretta1, S. Cantini2, S. Cervello2, D. Regazzi2
(1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
(2: LucchiniRS, Lovere, Italy)
Cold rolling as a prevention of corrosion-fatigue damage propagation
J. Rudlin1, R. Archer2, S. Beretta3, J. Syeda1, D. Panggabean1
(1: TWI, Cambridge, UK)
(2: Applied Inspections, Glasgow, UK)
(3: Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Data Collection for Corrosion Fatigue Life Estimation
J. Syeda and J. Rudlin
(TWI, Cambridge, UK)
Image Processing and Deep Learning Possibilities for Detection of Small Cracks within Corrosion
I. Cerny and J. Kec
(SVUM a.s., Celakovice, Czech Republic)
Measurement of displacement between axle and wheel during rotating bending as a tool for evaluation of potential fretting fatigue damage under press fit

Session 3

AUTHOR(S) TITLE
A. Gianneo, M. Carboni
Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
A Reliability Study of Phased Array Ultrasonic Inspections Applied to Aluminothermic Welds in Rails
J. Prager1, M. Grzeszkowski2
(1: BAM, Berlin, Germany)
(2: TU Berlin, Germany)
Online-Monitoring of Hollow Axles Using Ultrasound
U. Všlz1, P. Heilmann2, M. Spieker2
(1: arXes-tolina, Dresden, Germany)
(2: arXes-tolina, Berlin, Germany)
Automated Testing Systems for Ultrasonic Testing of Railway Axles by ARXES-TOLINA

Session 4

AUTHOR(S) TITLE
R. Boehm1, T. Heckel1, M. BlankschŠn1, W. Spruch2, T. Beggerow2
(1: BAM, Berlin, Germany)
(2: Buro fur Technische Diagnostik, Brandeburg, Germany)
Cone type Phased Array Design for High Speed Hollow Axle Inspection
R. Archer
(Applied Inspections, Glasgow, UK)
Axle inspection and reclamation by polishing out light corrosion (particularly in respect of highly stressed wheelseat transitional radii), conducted whilst the wheelsets are fitted to the vehicle
D. Panggabean1, U. Všlz2, C. Schneider1, J. Rudlin1
(1: TWI, Cambridge, UK)
(2: arXes-tolina, Dresden, Germany)
Use of MAPOD to produce Inspection Reliability Data for Inspection of Hollow Axles


The meeting will be focused on the results of the project:

EU Project RAAI

as well as other damage tolerance issues of axles, rails and switches.




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