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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Edited by: J. Pombo
Paper 8.2

Intelligent and Convenient Detection of Micrometer-Scale Rail Corrugation

X. Tang1, X. Cai1, Y. Wang1, H. Peng1 and Y. Hou2

1School of Civil Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
2Department of Civil Engineering, Swansea University, United Kingdom

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
X. Tang, X. Cai, Y. Wang, H. Peng, Y. Hou, "Intelligent and Convenient Detection of Micrometer-Scale Rail Corrugation", in J. Pombo, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, Online volume: CCC 7, Paper 8.2, 2024, doi:10.4203/ccc.7.8.2
Keywords: rail corrugation, wavelet packet decomposition, dilated convolution, residual connection, car body acceleration, vehicle-track coupling dynamics.

Abstract
In the process of long-term operation of the railway, rail corrugation seriously affects the safe operation of vehicles and greatly increases the maintenance costs, so it is very necessary to know the degree of rail corrugation in advance. A wavelet packet time-convolutional neural network (WPTCN) is proposed to detect micrometer-scale rail corrugation by using car body acceleration, which is a low-cost and fast detection method. By taking the car body acceleration as input, the recognition accuracy of WPTCN for micron-scale rail corrugation at different wavelengths and amplitudes is compared. The results show that there is strong robustness, superiority of WPTCN. The recognition accuracy of WPTCN is 96.60% ~ 99.10% at different wavelengths and 95.40% ~ 100% at different amplitudes, which is a great improvement compared with the traditional model.

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