1 Scope
This document specifies methods for measuring and analysing irregularities of running surfaces for use in the prediction and assessment of ground-borne noise and vibration arising
from railway systems. This document
defines the data that can be described as rail or wheel roughness and that can be used to quantify a source term for the generation of the dynamic
forces that can lead to ground-borne vibration from railway vehicles,
gives guidance regarding the types of equipment that can be used to measure roughness as a variation of height along the running direction of the rail surface or wheel
parameter,
gives guidance regarding the methods that can be used to obtain an estimate of the
roughness wavelength spectrum from measurement records taken over a length of rail head or
wheel perimeter, and
gives guidance regarding the presentation of a roughness spectrum representing the condition of a length of rail or of a wheel related to
its ability to generate vibration.
This document does not
give guidance regarding the characterization of localized geometrical feature...