Portable microscope for the analysis of wear surfaces on rails: proactive technology development

Abstract

The interview was conducted by JST's National Director of Railway Incident Investigations, Eng. Diego Di Siervi, with Eng. Maximiliano Zanin, Secretary of Research, Innovation, and Graduate Studies of the UTN Haedo Regional Faculty. They discussed the importance of the wheel-rail contact phenomenon in the railway industry and the development of an experimental portable microscope for evaluating profiles and wear surfaces on rails.