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Track IQ ThermalCAM: Detect Hot Wheels Caused by Stuck Brakes

By Wabtec Control Systems

Insufficiently released tread brakes apply constant pressure to wheel treads and heat wheels beyond their thermal design limit.

This causes:
  • Risk to track infrastructure due to stuck or partially stuck wheels
  • Thermal wheel damage leading to shelling and spalling and potentially cracked wheels
  • Inefficiencies in operation due to drag from unnecessary braking
  • Safety risk to personnel

Thermal overloading is sometimes visually identifiable by a discolouration of the wheel rim paint, or rim and tread steel faces. When excessive overheating occurs, the steel surfaces go through a process of annealing which makes the metal brittle so that lateral thermal cracks can form in the wheel tread.

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