NDT for safety - Recently Rail Accident at UP, India - A very Unfortunate accident in the history of Railways.
NDT for safety - Recently Rail Accident at UP, India - A very Unfortunate accident in the history of Railways. It is very unfortunate to see another disastrous train accident that has taken 140+ lives in UP. There reason is not yet concluded yet. However preliminary investigations shows there could be CRACKS ON RAIL TRACK DUE TO EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION - a natural process that happened in hot and extremely cold weathers. Now the question arises is are we ready enough for high speed rail ne twork in India. The high speed rail network is planned to be many time speeded that the once existing at the current tracks. Are we prepared enough for that is the question that needs to have crystal clear answer. As I routinely says in my technical talks we are having enough technology to make the rail travel safe but the problem is effectiveness in implementation of such stringent maintenance checks by the authorities. An effective NDT program implementation could have saved thes...