RAILWAY AGE, JULY 2023 ISSUE: Wayside or onboard, methods and materials vary, but they all have the same objectives. Lubrication and its high-tech equivalent, friction management, are important ...

High-speed train wheel dynamics and wear analysis is an essential field focused on understanding the mechanisms that lead to irregular wear patterns, particularly polygonal wear, on train wheels. This ...

MxV RAIL R&D, RAILWAY AGE MAY 2023 ISSUE: Hollow wear is a typical form of wheel wear often measured and reported by wayside wheel profile detector (WPD) systems that allow the monitoring of hollow ...

The system is designed for the contactless automatic measurement of geometrical parameters of railway wheels and uses a combination of 2D laser scanners that are mounted wayside in the track area. The ...

Improved digital circuits installed in rail tracks allow operators to more closely monitor the condition of trains, their wheels and tell when tracks may be warped by intense heat. Think “advanced ...

With the latest product CALIPRI X, together with CALIPRI Predictor, Hexagon introduces a ground-breaking, automated, permanently-installed solution for precise train wheel profile measurement and ...