Conditions of track have conventionally been measured by using exclusive inspection vehicles. If the conditions of the track can be detected by attaching simple sensors such as accelerometers on board of commercial vehicles, more efficient maintenance of tracks would be possible. This paper describes rail corrugation detection from the vertical acceleration of a vehicle body by timefrequency analysis. An actual vehicle running tests on a commercial line was conducted, in which vertical acceleration of axle-boxes and a vehicle body were measured. In this paper we show the rail corrugation can be detected from the vertical acceleration of a vehicle body by multi-resolution analysis (MRA) using wavelet transform.
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