Railway switches and crossings constitute a small fraction of linear track length but consume a large proportion of the railway track system maintenance budget.While switch and crossing(S&C)faults rarely prevent trains from running,switches and crossings are the source of many faults and need continual attention.On the rare occasions when trains are prevented from running the cost of the disruption is very high.Condition monitoring of the point operating equipment that moves the switchblades has been in use for many years but condition monitoring of the state of the switch in terms of the support and mechanical damage as trains pass over has only recently started to become possible.To this end,it is important to understand the correlation between S&C faults and sensor data that can detect those faults.This paper assesses some of the data collected from multiple sensors variously positioned on and around a switch and crossing on the UK mainline for a few days of normal train operation.Accelerometers,geo-phones,and strain gauges were installed at the locations where they were anticipated to be most useful.Forces at the load transfer point on the crossing nose were estimated from two separate strain gauge bridges and possible use of acceleration on the crossing is discussed.Correlations between different data are analysed and assessed and cor-relation between peak estimated load transfer forces and accelerations is presented.Based on the analysis,conclu-sions are drawn about the different types of dynamic information around S&Cs that can be obtained from a variety of sensor types.

Jou-Yi Shih;Paul Weston;Mani Entezami;Clive Roberts

Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education,University of Birmingham,Birmingham B15 2TT,UK;ZynaMic Engineering AB,12070 Stockholm,Sweden

铁道工程科学（英文）

[1]Jou-Yi Shih;Paul Weston;Mani Entezami;Clive Roberts-.Dynamic characteristics of a switch and crossing on the West Coast main line in the UK)[J].铁道工程科学（英文）,2022(02):183-203

switchblades,mainline,Accelerometers

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