Monitoring structural damage is extremely important for sustaining and preserving the
service life of civil structures. While successful monitoring provides resolute and staunch …

Railway track health monitoring and maintenance are crucial stages in railway asset
management, aiming to enhance the train operation quality and service life. For this aim …

Ultrasonic Testing (UT) has seen increasing application of machine learning (ML) in recent
years, promoting higher-level automation and decision-making in flaw detection and …

Rail inspection based on visual inspection system (VIS) has drawn much attention recently,
since VIS is automatic, fast, nondestructive, and objective. However, visual rail inspection is …

Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques are used in many industries to evaluate the
properties of components and inspect for flaws and anomalies in structures without altering …

Discrete surface defects impact the riding quality and safety of a railway system. However, it
is a challenge to inspect such defects in a vision system because of illumination inequality …

Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have become one of the most important
strengthening and retrofitting materials for reinforced concrete structures. However, these …

Computer vision systems have attracted much attention in recent years for use in detecting
surface defects on rails; however, accurate and efficient recognition of possible defects …

Railway systems play a vital role in the world's economy and movement of goods and
people. Rail tracks are one of the most critical components needed for the uninterrupted …

Rolling-sliding wear experiments were performed to investigate the wear and rolling contact
fatigue (RCF) behaviours of a premium pearlitic rail (PH), a carbon-free bainitic rail (BH) and …