Measurement of residual stresses in rails using Rayleigh waves
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2018
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Hughes, J.
Vidler, J.
Khanna, A.
Mohabuth, M.
Kotooussov, A.
Ng, C.
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Dyskin, A.
Pasternak, E.
Pasternak, E.
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Advances in mechanics: failure, deformation, fatigue, waves and monitoring: Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on Structural Integrity and Failure, 2018 / Dyskin, A., Pasternak, E. (ed./s), pp.160-164
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James Martin Hughes, James Vidler, Aditya Khanna, Munawwar Mohabuth, Andrei Kotousov and Ching-Tai Ng
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International Conference on Structural Integrity and Failure (3 Dec 2018 - 6 Dec 2018 : Perth, WA)
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This paper presents a new nondestructive approach for evaluating the residual longitudinal stresses in rails. The developed approach utilises the acoustoelastic effect to infer the longitudinal stress from the measured speed of Rayleigh waves propagating along the longitudinal direction. The measured Rayleigh wave speed along the longitudinal direction is shown to vary significantly across the height of the rail section, which can be directly correlated to the residual stress profile in the rail section. Unlike existing residual stress measurement techniques, such as hole-drilling or sectioning, the developed approach can be potentially applied for the in-situ residual stress measurement, without taking the rail out of service.
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