Data Sources and Research Models for Turnouts

Petra A. Wilfling*, Michael Fellinger, Peter Veit

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The current inspection and measurement methodologies for turnouts are time driven and manual and thus based on unloaded measurements. However, these measurements are scarcely usable for behaviour prognosis. Analysis of technologies available on the market shows a possibility for a loaded and automatic inspection by combining already existing technologies. Standard Elements are currently in use as a common tool for assessing the life cycle of turnouts. Those Standard Elements include all maintenance tasks within the entire service life of turnouts, generated and based on experiences as well as on statistical data over an entire network and a long-time span. The economic justification of a maintenance task needs both, the initial investment and the remaining life span to be considered. However, the reasons for the end of service life and therefore lifetime limiting components must be analysed separately. This was done by numerous questionnaires and expert interviews, which have shown that the ballast and the sleepers are the overall reasons for the necessity of a reinvestment.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpringer Series in Reliability Engineering
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages109-127
Number of pages19
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Publication series

NameSpringer Series in Reliability Engineering
ISSN (Print)1614-7839
ISSN (Electronic)2196-999X

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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