Rail and Track Testing

Eurailtest performs tests and offers expertise on infrastructure equipment and track components such as rails and turnouts.

Rails and turnouts

Contribute to the type approval process through metallurgical testing of infrastructure equipment – especially rails and turnouts.

Analyze rails and other metal track components at our dedicated centre or in the field as part of studies, failure analysis and product or equipment type approvals
Approve thermit and electric welds
Monitor the electric welding process (bending test)
Classify broken rails
Reconstitute defects in 2D or 3D using destructive machining
Analyze damage to:
– Infrastructure equipment
– Rail welds
– Frogs
Perform tests for validating electrodes or automatons

NF EN 14730- Track – Aluminothermic welding of rails

NF EN 14587- Track – Flash butt welding of rails

UIC 712 R- Rail defects

Composants de la voie

Testing and qualifying track components in the laboratory, especially sleepers, fastening systems and elastic components.

Conduct sleeper tests
Perform testing of fastening system according to standards
– Repetitive loading
– Salt spray tests
– Electrical resistance
Carry out specific testing of elastic components
– Stiffness testing: Fasteners, rail and sleeper pads, ballast and under ballast mats
– Attrition and fatigue testing: of ballasted track components: Fasteners, sleepers, rail and sleeper pads, ballast and under ballast mats
– Fatigue testing of bonded insulated joints
– Lateral resistance testing of sleepers