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PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Edited by: J. Pombo
Paper 10.24

Wheel-rail Contact Force Monitoring Based on Wireless LC Oscillation Sensing

C.R. Yang1, G.Y. Tian1,2 and M. Robinson1

1School of Engineering, Newcastle University Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
2School of Automation Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
C.R. Yang, G.Y. Tian, M. Robinson, "Wheel-rail Contact Force Monitoring Based on Wireless LC Oscillation Sensing", in J. Pombo, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, Online volume: CCC 1, Paper 10.24, 2022, doi:10.4203/ccc.1.10.24
Keywords: wheel-rail contact force, electrical micro-properties, LC oscillation, wireless sensing, resonant frequency, uniaxial loading testing, high frequency.

Abstract
In this paper, to lay a foundation for monitoring wheel-rail contact forces, a non-contact inductor-capacitor (LC) tank composed of a rectangular printed circuit board (PCB) coil and a fixed capacitor is used to sense the variation of micro-properties in a C50 steel specimen caused by the uniaxial tensile force, based on magnetic inductive sensing. The test result shows the resonant frequency of the LC tank has a positive correlation with the loading force. It paves the way for the utilization of LC oscillators on wheel-rail contact force monitoring of high-speed railways.

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