Condition Monitoring Systems for Railway Switches and Crossings (S&C)
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 4065
Special Issue Editor
Interests: railway engineering; design optimization, parameter identification; computational mechanics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sensor-based condition monitoring is an important component of proper and timely maintenance. Development and applications of the methods for condition monitoring and smart maintenance for railway switches and crossings (S&C) is lagging behind compared to the rest of railway infrastructure. So, the maintenance actions on railway S&C and especially are mainly reactively performed after detection of visible damage, which is obviously too late. These repair/replacement actions result in unplanned disruptions to railway traffic that dramatically increase the total costs of railway infrastructure.
In this Issue, you are invited to submit contributions describing development and implementation of condition monitoring and smart maintenance solutions for railway switches and crossings.
The Special Issue will cover the following (but not limited to) topics:
- Sensors and measurements techniques for instrumentation and wayside condition monitoring of railway S&C;
- Measurement-based methods for condition assessment of railway S&C;
- Algorithms for defects (in rails, fastenings, ballast bed, soil, etc.) localization and tracking;
- Modelling of the short- and long-term dynamic behaviour of turnouts and its use in condition monitoring systems;
- Degradation models for railway S&C;
- Development of sensor data-based condition assessment indicators for railway S&C;
- Signal processing, data fusion, and deep learning in condition monitoring systems for railway S&C;
- Long-term monitoring of railway crossings S&C;
- Sensor-based maintenance technologies for railway S&C.
Dr. Valeri Markine
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Railway switches and crossings
- Sensors in railway S&C
- Condition monitoring of switches and crossings
- Instrumentation of railway S&C
- Wayside monitoring of railway S&C
- Failure detection in railway S&C
- Predictive maintenance for railway S&C
