If you have difficulty in submitting comments on draft standards you can use a commenting template and email it to admin.start@bsigroup.com. The commenting template can be found here.

We use cookies to give you the best experience and to help improve our website

Find out what cookies we use and how to disable them

BS EN 16729-1 EN 16729-1 Railway applications. Infrastructure. Non-destructive testing on rails in track. Part 1: Requirements for ultrasonic inspection and evaluation principles

Source:
CEN
Committee:
RAE/2 - Railway Applications - Track
Categories:
Railways construction
Comment period start date:
Comment period end date:
Number of comments:
0

Comment by:

Scope

This document applies to testing of rails installed in track for detecting internal discontinuities.

This part applies to testing equipment fitted to dedicated test vehicles or manually-propelled devices. This document does not define the requirements for vehicle acceptance. This part of the series does not apply to ultrasonic testing of rails in a production plant.

The document specifies the requirements for testing principles and systems in order to produce comparable results with regard to location, type and size of discontinuities in rails. This document is not aiming to give any guidelines for managing the result of ultrasonic rail testing.

This document applies only to rail profiles meeting the requirements of EN 13674‑1.

Read draft and comment

Comment on proposal

Required form fields are indicated by an asterisk (*) character.


Please email further comments to: debbie.stead@bsigroup.com

Follow standard

You are now following this standard. Weekly digest emails will be sent to update you on the following activities:

You can manage your follow preferences from your Account. Please check your mailbox junk folder if you don't receive the weekly email.

Unfollow standard

You have successfully unsubscribed from weekly updates for this standard.

Error