Abstract

Within the frame of the Rail4Future project (https://www.rail4future.com) co-funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, a railway steel bridge was removed from the track and transported to a workshop in one piece. Artificial defects were introduced at different sections of the bridge structure as per advice of the scientific project partners in order to initiate fatigue cracks in the course of the subsequent fatigue test. One objective of the fatigue test was to identify suitable measurement and testing techniques for monitoring of fatigue crack growth. Among other techniques utilised by different project partners, acoustic emission monitoring was applied by TÜV AUSTRIA. This contribution describes the preparation as well as the performance of the acoustic emission monitoring and the results obtained. It is shown that this non-destructive testing technique is suitable for fatigue crack monitoring.

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