Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : November 27, 2024 - November 29, 2024
Usually railways regularly inspect turnouts using trained crews and special hand tools including gauges, etc. To aim the optimization of the track maintenance especially in local railways, a change in the inspection paradigm is needed that allows the inspection of turnouts in a dynamic rather than static manner in real-life conditions, i.e. a train on-board measurement. An experiment of laying track with turnout and loading to grasp its dynamic behavior including track support conditions were carried out. A comparison of measurement results confirms that the difference between unloaded/static measurements and loaded/dynamic measurements is significant.
