Design and Implementation of Crack Detection System for Railway Track

Abstract

Railways have advantages over the roadways that they can carry a large number of passengers and large and heavy loads to long distance. Sudan has a large network of railways through the country with total length of track about more than 4000 km. The major accidents in the railway networks are occurs due to crack faults. If these cracks are not detected at early stages they might lead to a number of derailments resulting in a heavy loss of life. So, This study aims in designing and implement of railway crack detection system using the Arduino Uno, IR obstacle Sensor assembly system, which detects the cracks along its path, the system is also capable of monitoring the location of the crack by using the GPS module and alerts through SMS messages using GSM module. The system with its both software and hardware sides has been tested and it performed well. Thus, considering the results that achieved it has remained projected that if the system is applied in railways it saves a lot of time compared with the traditional detection techniques hence it will preventing train accidents to very large extent.