Abstract
Turnouts are of the most critical components of railway track which are prone to high static and dynamic forces leading to more intense degradation. They require more inspection than other parts of a railway track as they are potential safety hazards. As a result, turnout degradation processes are crucial to be understood by infrastructure manager to plan for their maintenance and renewal in advance. Two approaches have been introduced in the literature to achieve a thorough understanding of degradation processes in turnouts. The first one acts to develop degradation models based on influential parameters and historical data and then to predict degradation processes in the future; while the second one tries to improve inspection through using new concepts and technologies leading turnout condition data to be better captured over time. The purpose of this paper is to review all available resources regarding these two approaches and provide a guide for further research into turnout studies.
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Minbashi, N., Bagheri, M., Golroo, A., Arasteh Khouy, I., Ahmadi, A. (2016). Turnout Degradation Modelling Using New Inspection Technologies: A Literature Review. In: Kumar, U., Ahmadi, A., Verma, A., Varde, P. (eds) Current Trends in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23597-4_5
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