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Railway Track Crack Detection System

International Research Journal of Modernization in Engineering Technology and Science

ABSRACT: Railways are large infrastructures, and in many countries they are the primary mode of transport. Because of their capacity, speed and reliability the railways have become a prime means of transportation. Only a small increase in railway efficiency has significant economic benefits for the rail industry. Therefore, a proper maintenance plan is required to control inspection frequency optimization and/or skill and efficiency improvements. Accidents that occur due to track breakage have been a major problem for the safety of life and timely service management of the railways. It is important to detect this breakage in real time before a train eventually reaches the damaged track and is subject to an accident. In this paper, the integration of ultrasonic crack detection method and complete station for eternal railway track geometry survey system into use and operation. This system consists of a GPS module, GSM modem, IR sensor, PIR sensor to put crack detection, contact intent and identification of any living being crossing the railroad track into operation. The GPS module and GSM modem lead to railway geometric parameter recognition and transmission of crack detection to nearby railway station. This paper also discusses the summation of a non-destructive ultrasonic test (NDT) and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to hold the information in a continuous record without interruption in nobility during run-time. The PIR sensor is executed to keep manual patrolling and track finding of living beings away. This can work both during the night and the daytime. The summing up of both WSN and NDT technologies will form different advanced and trending applications to make wireless material scanning more cost-effective in real time.

Design and Fabrication of Automatic Railway Track Crack Detection System

The Indian railway has one of the largest railway networks in the World, over 1, 15,000 km in distance. A recent study revealed a Fact that over 25% of the track length is in need of replacement Due to development of cracks on it. Manual detection of tracks is cumbersome and not fully effective. This project is done with Aim towards addressing the issue by developing an automatic Railway track detection system integrating an infrared IR crack Sensing module based on GSM technology by which information about the location of the crack can be conveyed to the central Location enabling immediate attention and intervention of the Maintenance personals. The whole construction of automatic railway track crack detection system consists of various components. It includes GSM module, GPS receiver, arduino board, GPS antenna, IR sensor, Battery and DC motor. The working platform for the whole system is Arduino board. The GSM module is interfaced with arduino through coding or programming. Similarly the GPS receiver is also interfaced with arduino through a specified program. The GPS i.e the global positioning system here plays a major role in the whole system, this is used to determine or to lock the exact location of the crack where the crack is being detected. The longitude and latitude of the exact crack location is determined through GPS antenna. The GSM Module also plays a vital role in the whole system. It is used to pass the message to the nearby station or maintenance center.

Railway Track Crack Detection Vehicle

IARJSET, 2017

In this paper, we presented a railway track crack detection patrolling vehicle. Indian railway has one of the world's largest railway networks comprising 92,081 km (57,216 mi) of track over a route of 66,687 km (41,437 mi) and 7,216 stations.So,manualinspectionand detecting a crack on these railways tracks is very tedious process and consumes lot of time and human resource. This paper proposes a cost effective solution to the problem of railway track crack detection utilizing IR sensor array assembly which tracks the exact location of faulty track, then inform to nearby railway station through short messaging application, so that many lives will be saved. There are many advantages with this system when compared with the traditional detection techniques. It includes less cost, low power consumption and less analysis time.

IRJET- AUTOMATIC RAILWAY TRACK CRACK DETECTING VEHICLE

IRJET, 2020

The Indian railway has one of the largest railway network in the world, crisscrossing over 1,15,000 km in distance ,all over India. However , with regard to reliability and passenger safety Indian railways is not up to global standards. Among other factors cracks developed on the rails due to the absence of a timely detection and the associated maintenance pose serious questions on the security of operation of rail transport. A recent study revealed that over 25% of the crack length is in need of replacement due to the development of the cracks on it. Manual detection of cracks is cumbersome and not fully effective owing to much time consumption and requirement of skilled techniques. This project works is aimed at addressing the issue by developing an automatic railway tracking detection system. This work introduces a project that aims in designing robust crack detecting scheme a system which avoids the train accidents by detecting the cracks on railway tracks. And also capable of alerting the authorities in the form of SMS messages along with location by using GPS and GSM modules. The system also includes a distance measuring sensors which displays the crack deviation distance between the railway tracks.

IRJET- AUTOMATIC RAILWAY TRACK CRACK DETECTION SYSTEM

IRJET, 2020

The Indian Railways consists one of the largest railway networks in the whole world, crises-crossing over 1, 15,000 km in distance, all over India. However, with regard to reliability, dependability and passenger safety of Indian Railways is not up to the global standards. Among other factors, the cracks are developed on the railway tracks due to absence of the inefficient timely detection Our work involves a project that aims of designing a railway crack detection system (RCDS) using Ultrasonic Sensor, The GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), GPS (Global Positioning System) and Arduino based module whose implementation is an efficient method of detecting the cracks which is present in the tracks and thus avoiding derailment of the trains.

Development of Railway Track Crack Detection System using Arduino

International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology, 2023

The Indian Railways has one of the largest railway networks in the world, criss- crossing over 1,15,000 km in distance, all over India. However, with regard to reliability and passenger safety Indian Railways is not up to global standards. Among other factors, cracks developed on the rails due to absence of timely detection and the associated maintenance pose serious questions on the security of operation of rail transport. A recent study revealed that over 25% of the track length is in need of replacement due to the development of cracks on it. Manual detection of tracks is cumbersome and not fully effective owing to much time consumption and requirement of skilled technicians. This paper is aimed towards addressing the issue by developing an automatic railway track crack detection system with the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT). It is possible to collect massive amount of data for localization and tracking of Railway Fault Detection.

Design and Development of Device Used for Detection of Cracks on Railway Tracks

The Indian railway is one of the largest railway networks in the world. Despite being such a large network, the safety parameters of Indian railways are substandard. The safety standards and outdated technology causes numerous train accidents and puts human lives in danger. These lives can be saved by avoiding and eliminating the main cause of such accidents i.e. detecting cracks in railway tracks and detecting obstacles over the track. The objective of this paper is to design and develop a system using sensors and automation to detect and warn the station master about possible danger. This paper briefs the sensors like GPS module, GSM modem, IR sensor, PIR sensor used for application of communication purpose, crack detection, and finding of human beings present in the railway track. Here, the GPS module and GSM modem help us to find and send railway geometric parameters of crack detection to the nearest railway station. This paper completes the study of a reliable crack detection system which can also be used in physical conditions.

AUTOMATIC CRACK DETECTION TECHNOLOGY FOR RAILWAY TRACK

International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas in Education , 2019

In the fast developing country, people are facing many accidents; it would be undesirable for any nation to losing their life for unwanted cause. Railways are one of the important transports in India. There is a need for manual checking to detect the crack on railway track and always railway personnel takes care of this issue, even though the inspection is made regularly. Sometimes the crack may un notice. Because of this the train accident or derailment may occur. In order to avoid this situation and automate the railway crack detection has been proposed. Here ultrasonic sensor is used to detect the crack in the railway track by measuring distance from track to sensor, if the distance is greater than the assigned value the microcontroller identifies there is a crack, also it tells the exact location of the crack by the formula "SPEED=DISTANCE/TIME" "DISTANCE=SPEED*TIME" TIME=DISTANCE/SPEED. While the checking process is going on, the train may approach, it is identified by the vibration sensor and gives alert to the microcontroller, thereby shrinks the size of the robot between the two tracks. After the train has crossed it returns to its normal position and continue its checking process.

An Arduino based Method for Detecting Cracks and Obstacles in Railway Tracks

Indian railways is the fourth largest railway community inside the international. despite the fact that there may be a outstanding boom in Indian railways, this machine remains plagued via some of issues which require immediately interest. on this paper we are thinking about the important problems that lead to injuries. primary issues encompass obstacles access on to the music and cracks at the tracks. to conquer this have proposed a checking out educate which uses ultrasonic sensor with a range of 100cms and put off is 30 cm. primarily based on the gap among impediment and the train, the train slows down. while the train is at a distance of 20cm we growth the delay so that you can sluggish down the educate and subsequently while it reaches to a distance of 15cm the teach automatically stops at some point of summer and iciness seasons the tracks may additionally expand and contract due to which cracks may additionally arise. the led and photodiode setup is located to trying out educate to hit upon cracks. here we're using arduino microcontroller. after crack detection the testing teach stops and the longitudinal and latitudinal positions are sent thru SMS to GSM and GPS.

Autonomous Railway Track Crack Detection and Accident Prevention System

2020

Train derailment is a predominant issue that needs to be solved, the major cause of the derailment is due to cracks and bridges on the track. To overcome this problem we have proposed an autonomous system (Robot) that uses an ultrasonic sensor with a range of 30 cm primarily based on distance measurement and density sensor to detect deeper cracks, the sensor is used to detect cracks present on the railway track by sending ultrasonic waves. As soon as the crack is detected the GPS Sensor is used to find out the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates of the area where the crack is detected. The detected crack along with the exact location is sent to a nearby railway station using a GSM module. These data are then sent to the cloud server which is then analysed and compared with the threshold and the cracks can be rectified on the exact location of the damage. The proposed self-governing system is a robot along with wheels and motors which are controlled by a motor driver. Here we ar...