In this work we present the results of a field trial with a FBG sensor array system for the real time monitoring of railway traffic and for the structural health monitoring of both the railway track and train wheels. The test campaign is performed on the 2nd line of Milan metropolitan underground, employing more than 50 FBG sensors along 1.5 km of the rail track, where the trains are tested during daily passenger rail transport, with a roughly maximum speeds of 90 km/h. The measurements were continuatively performed for over 6 months, with a sampling frequency of about 400 Hz. The large amount of data/sensors allows a rather accurate statistical treatment of the measurement data and permits, with dedicated algorithms, the estimation of rail and wheel wear, key traffic parameters such as the number of axles, the train speed and load, and, in the next future, the detection of localized imperfections.

Real-time monitoring of railway infrastructures using fibre Bragg grating sensors / Roveri, Nicola; Carcaterra, Antonio; Sestieri, Aldo. - In: MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING. - ISSN 0888-3270. - 60:(2015), pp. 14-28. [10.1016/j.ymssp.2015.01.003]

Real-time monitoring of railway infrastructures using fibre Bragg grating sensors

ROVERI, NICOLA;CARCATERRA, Antonio
;
SESTIERI, Aldo
2015

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In this work we present the results of a field trial with a FBG sensor array system for the real time monitoring of railway traffic and for the structural health monitoring of both the railway track and train wheels. The test campaign is performed on the 2nd line of Milan metropolitan underground, employing more than 50 FBG sensors along 1.5 km of the rail track, where the trains are tested during daily passenger rail transport, with a roughly maximum speeds of 90 km/h. The measurements were continuatively performed for over 6 months, with a sampling frequency of about 400 Hz. The large amount of data/sensors allows a rather accurate statistical treatment of the measurement data and permits, with dedicated algorithms, the estimation of rail and wheel wear, key traffic parameters such as the number of axles, the train speed and load, and, in the next future, the detection of localized imperfections.
2015
structural health monitoring; fibre bragg gratings; damage detection; rail; wear
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Real-time monitoring of railway infrastructures using fibre Bragg grating sensors / Roveri, Nicola; Carcaterra, Antonio; Sestieri, Aldo. - In: MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING. - ISSN 0888-3270. - 60:(2015), pp. 14-28. [10.1016/j.ymssp.2015.01.003]
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