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Experimental Results of RAWCAD Static Test

The Federal Railroad Administration supported the performance of semi static tests on two cracked axles as part of the Resonant Acoustic Wayside Automated Cracked Axle Detection (RAWCAD) project. The performance of detection algorithms for distinguishing frequency shift in cracked axles was...

Developing Low Service Temperature Steels for Railroads Truck Castings

The research performed for the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) previously identified six grades of steel currently used in low temperature applications that could potentially be used as truck castings. These materials are specified under the American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM)...

GCIS Release Notes version 2.10.1

On April 30th 2020, FRA's Grade Crossing Inventory System (GCIS) was upgraded to version 2.10.1 with various improvements including changes to online form processing, data validations, and submissions received from APIs and bulk uploads. This document contains the release...

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