This book highlights condition monitoring advances in railway engineering, where the condition monitoring serves as an essential role in the maintenance of railway engineering after decades of service. New sensing techniques have been applied in certain fields in order to determine the minor defect in the railway systems. Also new algorithms are introduced to analyze the sensed data in order to improve the accuracy and the efficiency of monitoring and detection. This book is useful for railway engineers/investigators as well the students majoring in railway engineering serving as a good starting point to learn condition monitoring in railway engineering.

Dr. Yun Lai Zhou is a professor in the Department of Engineering Mechanics at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid, Spain. His research interests include structural health monitoring and fracture mechanics, and he has authored and co-authored numerous publications on the subject of structural health monitoring and structural modal analysis in international journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Peng Dai, as a research scientist, graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology. He works on the railway infrastructure inspection technology. He hosted and participated in more than 10 projects, and published 18 academic papers.

Prof. Magd Abdel Wahab is a Full Professor of applied mechanics in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University, Belgium, and Adjunct Full Professor in several universities in Vietnam and China. He received his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and his M.Sc. in Structural Mechanics, both from Cairo University. He completed his Ph.D. in Fracture Mechanics at KU Leuven, Belgium and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Surrey. He has published more than 460 scientific papers in solid mechanics and dynamics of structures and edited more than 25 books and proceedings. His research interests include fracture mechanics, damage mechanics, fatigue of materials, durability, and dynamics and vibration of structures.

 

Prof. Linya Liu is a Professor of rail system noise and vibration control in East China Jiaotong University, China. He received his BSc, 1996, from Southwest Jiaotong University, China; and he completed his PhD in 2006 in Tongji University, China, both in Highway & Railway Engineering. He dedicates his research in the field of static and dynamic structural analysis, vibration mitigation and noise control especially for therail system components including floating track slab. He has authored and co-authored for several books and more than 60 scientific publications in international journals and conference proceedings.