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Title: New Analysis of Ground Penetrating Radar Testing of a Mixed Railway Trackbed
Accession Number: 01157089
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Abstract: The overall aim of this project was to relate Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to ballast fouling. The 10-year old University of Edinburgh full-scale trackbed was revisited and the fouling of the ballast was recalibrated following environmental changes, using the Ionescu fouling index. A series of GPR experiments were undertaken on the trackbed using a range of bowtie antennas from 500MHz to 2.6GHz. Scatter analyses of the GPR waveforms included area analyses, axis crossing analyses and inflexion point analyses. When predicting Fouling Index, a correlation coefficient greater than 0.9 was obtained by using a 500 MHz bowtie antenna in the parallel orientation in conjunction with a scan area analysis. This paper will outline the recent work of other researchers and the detailed experimental program at the University of Edinburgh.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01147878
Report/Paper Numbers: 10-3142
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Forde, Michael ChristopherDe Bold, RobertO’Connor, GerardMorrissey, JohnPagination: 18p
Publication Date: 2010
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC, United States Media Type: DVD
Features: Figures
(9)
; References
(12)
; Tables
(5)
TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Railroads; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2010 Paper #10-3142
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jan 25 2010 11:33AM
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