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Automatic Inspection Of Railway Overhead WiresFormat | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
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Paper Abstract
For the Netherlands railway company a system for inspection of the degree of wear of the contact wires is being developed. With an active sensor the reflective under-surface of the overhead wire is illuminated with a laserbeam and reflected radiation is detected by fast CCD detectors. With the sensor at a train speed of 90 km/hr. every cm of max. 4 overhead wires will be inspected, determining the wire thickness and the appearance of holes caused by local sparks. For illumination and detection a special optical system has been developed. From the railway inspection waggon measurements have been performed with a prototype system, demonstrating the feasibility of the measuring principe.
Paper Details
Date Published: 15 February 1989
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 1010, Industrial Inspection, (15 February 1989); doi: 10.1117/12.949225
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1010:
Industrial Inspection
Donald W. Braggins, Editor(s)
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 1010, Industrial Inspection, (15 February 1989); doi: 10.1117/12.949225
Show Author Affiliations
C. Smorenburg, TNO Institute of Applied Physics (The Netherlands)
A. L.G. van Valkenburg, TNO Institute of Applied Physics (The Netherlands)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1010:
Industrial Inspection
Donald W. Braggins, Editor(s)
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