The importance of non-destructive testing (NDT) and the underpinning technology partially lies in maintaining railway rails free of defects and inspection, which is a vital aspect of everyday rail ...

On the technology spectrum, railroads would certainly seem to skew toward the brutally simplistic side of things. A couple of strips of steel, some wooden ties and gravel ballast to keep everything in ...

Existing defect detection tools using ultrasound rely on phased array ultrasound. In this method, many transducers are pointed in the same direction to generate an image of that specific area. This ...

Advances in ultrasound—the same imaging technology that uses sound waves to allow doctors to monitor babies in utero—are being applied by engineers at the University of California San Diego to make ...

360 Rail Services has decided to integrate Ardenna's Rail Defect Detection SaaS with its drone-based rail yard inspection service. 360 Rail Services transforms track inspections using Ardenna’s SaaS ...

Governor Andrew Cuomo today announced completion of the latest round of targeted crude oil tank car and rail inspections. Last week inspection teams from the New York State Department of ...

Faxes to be replaced by central web database... The UK rail industry is to develop a central web database of all safety incidents that will act as an early warning system for defects that could ...