• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.801-806
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• 2021

Rail corrugation is continuously increasing due to the lack of maintenance regulations for the amount of rail irregularities. Rail corrugation is causing various problems, such as a decrease in ride comfort and an increase in the amount of track maintenance. In this paper, the effect of rail corrugation on the track force was analyzed by measuring the rail irregularities before and after rail grinding and the track measurements (dynamic wheel load, displacement, and acceleration) for the section where the rail corrugation occurred. In addition, it was experimentally proven that the rail grinding performed to reduce the corrugation of the rail was very effective in reducing the additional forces on the track.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.631-645
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• 2002

●정의 정척레일을 연속 용접하여 1개의 레일길이를 200m 이상으로 부설한 레일 ●장대레일화 - 차량 시동/제동하중에 의한 교축방향 수평력 작용 - 기존 : 수평력 배분을 위해 단순교로 시공(레일 이음매) - 현재 : 장대레일화 ● 장점 -유지보수비 절감 -승차감 향상(충격/소음 저감) -고속화 및 운행 안전성 향상 ●단점 -큰 레일 축력(파단/좌굴) -교량부, 급곡선부, 분기부 - 장대레일 종하중(하부구조) (중략)

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.5-16
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• 1999

1830년에는 영국의 Clarence가 16.4 kg/m의 압연레일을 제작하였다. 이것은 그후 영국에서 널리 사용되었던 우두(牛頭)레일(bull-head rail)이라 부르는 형의 원조라고도 한다. 1837년에는 영국의 J. Locke가 그림 9와 같은 쌍두(雙頭)레일(double head rail)을 고안하였다. 쌍두레일은 두부와 저부가 같은 단면으로 하여 레일 교환시에 상하를 전도하여 다시 사용할 목적이 있었다. 그러나, 목적에 반하여 경년(經年)과 함께 레일 하부의 레일을 지지하는 체어(chair)부에 접하는 개소가 손상하기 때문에 저부를 주행면으로 사용하기에는 지장이 생기기 쉽고, 이때문에 영국에서는 1844년에 고안된 우두레일로 바뀌었다. 이것은 두부와 저부의 단면이 대칭적이지 않고 두부가 약간 크다. 이 레일은 제조상 비교적 압연이 용이하고 냉각이 보다 빠르기 때문에 똑바른 레일을 얻기가 쉽지만, 레일의 횡방향 안정성 등에 문제가 있다. (중략)

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.535-544
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• 2011

The rail surface defects can cause the high impact load on the track and lead to the progress of the rail fatigue damage and the rail break. In case of the rail break, there is a great deal of risk for derailment, and thus the maintenance criteria for the rail surface defects are of great importance. In this study, using the dynamic train-track interaction analysis program, the impact wheel loads and rail bending stresses according to the depths of the surface defects have been calculated with the input data of the rail surface irregularities measured at 43 spots with surface defects in the ballasted track of high-speed railway. Considering the irregularity of track geometry, the allowable limits of wheel load and rail bending stress have been set, and the maintenance criteria for the rail surface defects was suggested by analyzing the relationship of the maximum values of wheel load and rail bending stress versus depth and width of rail surface defect. The analysis results suggest that the allowable depth of the surface defect is determined approximately 0.2mm from the limit of the impact wheel load.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.533-539
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• 2010

The The contactless railway abrasion measurement system have to satisfy two conditions to increase the measurement accuracy as follows. The laser region projected on the rail have to be extracted without the geometrical distortion. The mapping of the acquired laser region data on the rail profile have to be matched with the cross section of rail, exactly. But, the conventional railway abrasion measurement system is required the post image processing with a camera model and a perspective transform for the exact mapping between the cross section of rail and the coordinate data extracted from a line laser region or the raw image obtained from a camera because the image captured from the camera has an oblique viewpoint. So, the measured rail profile data had limits to the measurement accuracy because of a discontinuity point. In this Paper, we propose the 3D rail profile reconstruction method to increase the accuracy of the railway abrasion measurement system applying the modified camera model and perspective transform to the image obtained from the bidirectional rail.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.315-323
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• 2010

It is suggested that the service life of the continuous welded rail(CWR) is estimated by the relationship between the rail surface irregularity according to the accumulated passing tonnage and bending fatigue of welded part in CWR. In this study, it measured bending stress of rail according to the rail surface irregularity in the concrete track on the Seoul Metro. In addition, the relationship between rail surface irregularity and bending stress in concrete track is analyzed by results of the field test. Finally, this study clarified the relationship among bending stress(Y) of rail, train speed(U), rail surface irregularity(v, w) in concrete track. The result of this study is able to use the basis data to establishing the periodic replacements criterion of CWR.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.272-279
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• 2008

The importance of maintenance of rail surface defects is increasing more according to the KTX operation. That is because during high speed operation of rolling stock, rail surface defects may cause shortened fatigue life of rail, acceleration of track degradation and reduced ride comfort. The paper was intended to study the establishment of rail grinding criteria of high-speed railway lines considering the KTX operation circumstances. For this, the specimens of UIC 60 rail on Kyeong-Bu high-speed operation lines were collected and they were tested for metallographic structure and measured for the hardness. As the factors affecting RCF causing the defects of rail surface, passing tonnage, running speed and track condition are considered.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.398-413
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• 2011

For railway safety, it is very important to detect damages of rails at their early stage because any undetected damage in a rail can break the rail and cause a serious railway accident. In this paper, several NDT applicable to rail inspections are described. Major damage types in rails are discussed first and the rail inspection technology using conventional piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers, which is widely adopted for damage detection of rails, is explained. Other NDT being researched or tested for rail inspection are also discussed as complementary technologies to the concurrent contact type ultrasonic inspection. Characteristics of each rail inspection technologies are evaluated in order to provide requirements for future development of a new rail inspection method.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.1191-1198
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• 2015

In this study, vehicle/track interaction analysis by the Saemaul powered vehicle was carried out. The prediction equation for the bending stress of rail was estimated using the rail bending stress by the rail surface irregularities at welds. Also, the fatigue analysis using a S-N curve of welds in the conventional railway was carried out. We estimated the fatigue life of CWR by the fracture probability. By the rail grinding, the fatigue life of CWR was evaluated in consideration to reduce the rail bending stress through removing the rail surface irregularities. Therefore, it presented the fatigue life of CWR according to the rail grinding execution plan in the conventional railway.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.577-582
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• 2010

The importance of maintenance of rail surface defects is increasing according to the KTX operation. That is because during high speed operation of rolling stocks, rail surface defects shorten fatigue life of rail, accelerate track degradation and deteriorate ride comfort. Rail grinding has been applied for effective rail maintenance in Kyeong-Bu HS line. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of rail grinding in term of rail fatigue life. To this end, the stresses of the rail are measured under KTX running and the equivalent stress range is calculated by RMC after the frequency analysis done with rainflow counting method. Also, The Modified Miner's rule is applied to predict the fatigue life of ground rail. The result of the analysis shows that the fatigue life of ground rail is increased by 15%.