{"id":14544,"date":"2022-04-01T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/ttci-concludes-testing-of-automated-cracked-wheel-detector\/"},"modified":"2022-04-01T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T09:27:00","slug":"ttci-concludes-testing-of-automated-cracked-wheel-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/?p=14544","title":{"rendered":"TTCI Concludes Testing of Automated Cracked Wheel Detector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) has concluded the research, development and testing of a Tycho-manufactured Automated Cracked Wheel Detector System (ACWDS) capable of inspecting wheels for internal fatigue cracks at speeds of up to 15 mph. The validation of the system, sponsored by the Association of American Railroads (AAR), was performed using the heavy axle load (HAL) test train (a consist of about 120 cars, each with a 39-ton axle load) at the Facility for Accelerated Service Testing (FAST&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) has concluded the research, development and testing of a Tycho-manufactured Automated Cracked Wheel Detector System (ACWDS) capable of inspecting wheels for internal fatigue cracks at speeds of up to 15 mph. The validation of the system, sponsored by the Association of American Railroads (AAR), was performed using the heavy axle load [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}