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Fire Resistance Tests of Reduced Scale Rail Car Floor Assemblies

The Federal Railroad Administration contracted Jensen Hughes (JH) to conduct tests to validate the methodology for reducing the size of a test specimen for rail car floor fire resistance compliance test. The tests were conducted on May 20–24, 2019, at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)....

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Technology and Evaluation Implementation

From June 2015 to January 2018, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) contracted Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) to perform a 3-year study to develop guidelines for the implementation of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technology by North American railroads. To achieve this goal...

Effect of Temperature on Wheel Shelling

In 2014, Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) reviewed and summarized published data and the capabilities of twin disk machines that included a unique machine that allows elevated temperature testing. TTCI suggested a methodology for future testing on this thermally controlled twin disk...