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Non-Destructive Testing Applied to the Railway Industry

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Facultad Regional Haedo

Our main research topics are rail defect detection and evaluation system and railway signal processing.

Description

We're working on a rail inspection device that uses Eddy Current Testing (ECT). This device is completely designed and manufactured in the laboratory. It includes a XYZ stage as well as all of the components of an ECT kit. Among the enhancements are the design and manufacture of new probes, the improvement of the electronics for signal sending and receiving, processing of the obtained ECT signals (here the development of a technique to reduce the lift-off signal is highlighted), and the study of the most suitable test conditions.

First prototype device for ECT rail inspection - Lab equipment & instruments

Recently

• 📢 The Director of the group, Dr. Javier Fava, will participate in the symposium "Present and future of transport safety in Argentina and the region", on April 25, 26 and 27, 2023.
Argentine Catholic University – Auditorio Juan Pablo II (Edificio San José)
Alicia Moreau de Justo 1680, CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina




• 📢 Upcoming presentation of a seminar at Centro Nacional de Capacitación Ferroviaria (CENACAF) (2022)



• 📢 First citation of our work in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing journal (2022)
  Inspection of RCF rail defects – Review of NDT methods


• 📺Somos noticias news channel visited the NDT laboratory (2017)

People

Role	Photo	Contact	About
Director		Javier Fava jfava@frh.utn.edu.ar	Professor in Physics at UTN-FRH and PhD in Materials Science
Assistant		Federico Checozzi Federico	Electronics Engineer