• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.123-133
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• 2004

The evaluation standard method of weld zone in rails is not exhibited in case of the domestic and the outside about ultrasonic inspection method. therefore, practical affairs a mans on the ground know very little about evaluation method of pass and failure. This paper discuss about ultrasonic exploration of weld zone in railway rails to know practical affairs a mans that the first, "problem and improvement direction of domestic track construction specifications applied according to a place ordering" and the second, "the method applied of ultrasonic exploration test of weld zone in railway rails".

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.11 no.3 s.40
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• pp.281-290
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• 1999

For many decades, the railway was constructed using tracks with jointed rails of relatively short lengths in accordance with rolling and handling technology. The joints cause many drawbacks in the track and lead to significant maintenance cost. So, railroad engineers became interested in eliminating joints to increase service loads ana speeds by improving rolling, welding, and fastening technology. Continuous welded rail(CWR) track has many advantages over the conventional jointed-rail track. But, in the case of the elimination of rail joints, it may cause the track to be suddenly buckled laterally by thermal loads. In this paper, CWR track model and CWRB program are developed for linear buckling analysis using finite element method. Rail element with a total of 14 degrees of freedom is used. The stiffness of the fastener, tie, and ballast bed are included by a set of spring elements. The investigation on the buckling modes and temperature of CWR track is presented.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07c
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• pp.2351-2353
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• 2005

본 논문은 포장도로의 표면 상태를 고성능의 레이저 변위 센서를 사용하여 정밀하게 측정하고, GPS(Global Positioning System)를 사용하여 측정 위치 데이터를 획득하는 도로 표면 측정 장비 개발에 관한 논문이다. 본 연구에서는 전체 시스템을 설계하고, 차량 주행을 모사한 실험 모형을 제작하여 실내 실험을 실시하였으며, GPS 단말기로부터 실시간으로 위치 신호를 수신하여 도로면 데이터와 연동할 수 있도록 하였다. 그리고 평가 차량의 전면에 레일(rail)을 장착하여 레이저 변위 센서가 좌우로 왕복운동이 가능하도록 하였으며, 레일을 작동시킨 상태에서 도로면을 측정해 보았다. 실험 모형의 측정 곁과는 차량이 80km/h로 주행할 때 도로 표지 타이닝(tinning)의 폭 오차 3.24%, 깊이 오차 5%였다. 차량이 정지된 상태에서 레일을 작동시켜 요철을 측정하였을 경우 레일 방향에 대한 폭 오차는 0.07%였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.405-411
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• 2009

Railway signaling system in a rapid transit using the ATC system the approved a speed limit to a train and a part of signaling system in a metro approved a distance which is possible to move. Referring to the way of transmitting train control information, there are the one transmitting it to the on-board system of a train using the direct track, the another transmitting it establishing an instrument, and the other transmitting an instrument by a railway track. The one is the method using the direct track as a conductor for composing the part of the track and attaining the information controlling a train by transmitting a signal to the track. It is used for the high-speed railway and the subway. The method using the track attains information by transmitting it to returned information, and the on-board system of a train attains it by magnetic coupling. Because many reinforcing bars on the concrete slab track are used, interaction between a rail and a reinforcing bar that is not produced on ballast track is made. Due to the interaction, the electric characteristic of rail is changed. In the current paper, we numerically computed the coupling coefficient between the rail and the reinforcing bar based on the concrete slab track throughout the model related to the rail and the reinforcing bar using the concrete slab track that is used in the second interval of the Gyeongbu high-speed railway, and we defined the coupling coefficient not changed in the electric characteristic of rail in the condition that there is no interaction between the rail and the reinforcing bar.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.658-667
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• 2017

Rail is the main track component, playing the most important role in safe railways. For the sake of safety, it is strictly required to secure reliability against fatigue and destruction of rail. In this paper, by field measurement on concrete track, it is confirmed that the rail surface roughness and rail bending stress are linearly correlated with each other; the bending stress of rail can be presented as a function of train speed, track support stiffness, and rail surface roughness. The fatigue life of rail can be estimated by deriving the S-N curve through the fatigue test.

• Journal of The Korean Society For Urban Railway
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.393-399
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• 2018

It is well recognized that residual stresses of the rails, generated from the manufacturing process including roller straightening and heat treatment, play an important role in determining fatigue and fracture properties of the rails. Thus, it has been a challenge to measure the residual stresses accurately. In this work, contour method was employed to evaluate the residual stresses existing in interior of the rails. The cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the rail was cut at a very slow rate using electric discharge machining (EDM), after which a laser-based flexural measuring instrument enabled us to precisely measure the flection of the cross section. The measured data were converted into the residual stresses using the commercial finite element package, ABAQUS, through a user-defined element (UEL) subroutine, and the residual stresses of the new rails (50N, KR60, UIC60) with three different specifications were compared.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.245-250
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• 2014

This paper, as a study for the serviceability design of railway bridges with concrete track, presents the effects of design parameters of tracks and bridges on the forces acting on the rail supports of the track. To calculate the forces acting on the track, an unequal spacing discrete supported model with different spacing of rail supports was induced. Design parameters are the rail support spacing of expansion joints above abutments or piers of bridges, the distance from the support of a girder to the last rail support on the end of the girder, and the number of additional rail supports. The causes of the displacement of track are axial force, unit vertical displacement, and unit rotation. From the analysis, the maximum compressive force and the maximum uplifting force acting on the rail supports were determined and the effects of the rail support spacing on the forces acting on the track were presented.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.7941-7948
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• 2015

Rolling noises during train operation are caused by vibration excited from irregularities of surface roughness between wheel and rail. Therefore, a proper measurement and analysis techniques of acoustic roughness between wheel and rail surface are required for transmission, prediction, and analysis of the train rolling noise. However, since current measuring devices and methods use trolley-based manual handling devices, the measurements induce unstable measuring speed and vibrational interface that increases errors and disturbances. In this paper, a new automatic rail surface exploring platform with a speed controller has been developed for improving measurement accuracy and reducing inconsistency of measurements. In addition, we propose a data integration method of the rail surface roughness with multiple homogeneous displacement sensors and verified the accuracy of the integrated data through standard test-bed railway track investigation.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.265-270
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to derive the damage weak part of the elastic rail fastening system for concrete tracks (System 300-1). In the concrete tracks, the elastic rail fastening system sticks the rail and the sleeper and reacts all the time when the train is running. Among the components of the rail fastening system, the resilience pad and tension clamp were fatigue members and were constantly deformed in response to compressive and uplift forces. In this study, the residual deformation characteristics of the tension clamp according to the period of use were analyzed using by specimens taken on site in the same section for 6, 11, and 16 years on the serviced urban transit. In addition, the damage mechanisms for each component were derived based on finite element analysis. As a result of the numerical analysis, the stress (strain) of each part of the tension clamp according to the external force from the applied clamping force was analyzed to derive the damaged weak part of the tension clamp.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.138-146
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• 2010

DC railway power supply system generally uses the running rails as negative-polarity return conductor for traction load current, and the induced rail potential and stay current cause serious problems to any electrified matter in the underground and also safety problems to human body. This paper presents a new algorithm for the analysis of the rail potential and the stray current in DC railway power system operated under independent/parallel power feeding mode. The effect of load current fluctuation during train operation is also calculated by using TPS(Train Performance Simulation) program to analysis the variation of the railway potential and stray current along railway track. Simulation program is developed based on the proposed algorithm and case studies are provided.