Author:Loveday, Philip WDate:Apr 2012Cost-effective NDE of the vast length of ageing railway track around the world remains challenge for the community. Since continuously welded railway lines may be thought of as one-dimensional elastic waveguides, they are natural candidates ...Read more
Author:Long, Craig S; Loveday, Philip WDate:Apr 2012The analysis of travelling waves in elastic waveguides with complex cross-sections, such as train rails, can only conveniently be performed numerically. The semi-analytical finite element (SAFE) method has become a popular tool for performing ...Read more