Testing and Laboratory Capabilities
- Rail surface friction measurements
- Wheel load measurement systems
- Comprehensive range of data recording, analysis and computing equipment
- Wheel and rail profiling
- Rail corrugation measurements and analysis
- Strain gauge instrumentation
- Ballast and formation testing
- Servo-hydraulic, dynamic testing machines with load capacity 10 – 70 tonnes
- Fatigue testing of components including rail welds, couplers, yokes, sleepers and fasteners
- Weld qualification testing
- Materials characterisation and failure analysis
- Comprehensive metallurgical analysis capabilities
- X-ray fluorescence microscopy using Australian synchrotron (Read more...)
