Journal
ADVANCES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 8, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1687814016676000
Keywords
Acoustic emission; wayside condition monitoring; axle bearing; time spectral kurtosis
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- European Commission [314408]
- Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education
- Krestos Limited
- Network Rail
- VTG Rail
- Motorail Logistics
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Typical railway wheelsets consist of wheels, axle and axle bearings. Faults can develop on any of the aforementioned components, but the most common are related to wheel and axle bearing defects. The continuous increase in train operating speeds means that failure of an axle bearing can lead to serious derailments, causing loss of life and severe disruption in the operation of the network, damage to the track and loss of confidence in rail transport by the general public. The rail industry has focused on the improvement of maintenance and remote condition monitoring of rolling stock to reduce the probability of failure as much as realistically possible. Current wayside systems such as hot axle box detectors and acoustic arrays may fail to detect defective bearings. This article discusses the results of wayside high-frequency acoustic emission measurements performed on freight rolling stock with artificially induced damage in axle bearings in Long Marston, UK. Time spectral kurtosis is applied for the analysis of the acoustic emission data. From the results obtained, it is evident that time spectral kurtosis is capable of distinguishing the axle bearing defects from the random noises produced by different sources such as the wheel-rail interaction, braking and changes in train speed.
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