ultrasonic guided waves-based monitoring of rail head laboratory and field tests超声引导基于waves监测轨头实验室和现场测试.pdf

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Civil Engineering Volume 2010, Article ID 291293, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2010/291293 Research Article Ultrasonic Guided Waves-Based Monitoring of Rail Head: Laboratory and Field Tests Piervincenzo Rizzo,1 Marcello Cammarata,1, 2 Ivan Bartoli,3 Francesco Lanza di Scalea,3 Salvatore Salamone,3 Stefano Coccia,3 and Robert Phillips3 1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 949 Benedum Hall, 3700 O’Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA 2 Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy 3 NDE and Structural Health Monitoring Laboratory, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, M.C. 0085, La Jolla, CA 92093-0085, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Piervincenzo Rizzo, pir3@ Received 23 December 2009; Accepted 19 April 2010 Academic Editor: Jinying Zhu Copyright © 2010 Piervincenzo Rizzo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Recent train accidents have reaffirmed the need for developing a rail defect detection system more effective than that currently used. One of the most promising techniques in rail inspection is the use of ultrasonic guided waves and noncontact probes. A rail inspection prototype based on these concepts and devoted to the automatic damage detection of defects in rail head is the focus of this paper. The prototype includes an algorithm based on wavelet transform and outlier analysis. The discrete wavelet transform is