Guided wave–based rail flaw detection technologies: state-of-the-art review
- Publisher:
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Structural Health Monitoring, 2022, 21, (3), pp. 1287-1308
- Issue Date:
- 2022-05-01
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The unavoidable increase in train speed and load, as well as the aging of railway facilities, is requiring more and more attention to rail defects detection. As a promising tool for rail, in-service high-speed inspection, guided wave–based detection technologies have been developed in succession by researches in the past two decades. However, there is a lack of a systematic review on the developments and performances of these technologies. This article reviews ultrasonic rail inspection methods comprehensively with the focus on the state-of-the-art technologies based on guided wave. Different excitation options, including train wheel, electromagnetic acoustic transducer, pulsed laser, air-coupled, and contact piezoelectric transducer, are described, respectively, along with their inspection sensitivities, regions, and potential speeds. Finally, future challenges and prospects are discussed to a certain extent to provide references for researchers in this area.
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