Purpose. The article presents a laboratory setup and a measuring system of oscillations of a fixed wire with a transverse impact.Findings. This measuring system can be used to determine wire displacements from 1.5 µm with a time resolution of 5 ns.Practical meaning. The laboratory setup will allow experimental studies of the reaction of the wire and the frozen ice tube to a mechanical shock by an inductor, the speed and energy of which can be an order of magnitude higher than that of a pendulum. Originality/value. Described installation for the study of the destructive effect transmitted to the ice indirectly, through a bump,mounted on the wire.

The main practical results obtained in the course of writing a thesis. On the basis of all the information received and solving the problems posed at the beginning of the work, a system for diagnosing a rail metal was developed, consisting in finding temperature stresses using a magnetometer-gradiometer.