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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2020
Thales Management & Services Deutschland Gmbh, Ditzingen, DE;
Kai Schicker, Mehltheuer, DE;
Lars Hoffmann, Munich, DE;
Thales Management & Services Deutschland GmbH, Ditzingen, DE;
Abstract
A method of mounting a rail monitoring member/element at a mounting location of a rail for rail traffic, in particular on a railway track, is disclosed. The rail monitoring member includes a strain sensor member with a carrier on which a strain gauge, being an optical fiber with a fiber Bragg grating, is fixed. The method steps include: determination of the temperature of the rail and/or rail monitoring member at the mounting location; checking whether the determined temperature is within a predefined temperature interval; providing heating or cooling application to the rail and/or rail monitoring member at the mounting location, if the determined temperature is not within the predefined temperature interval; positioning and adhesively fixing of the carrier of the rail monitoring member at the mounting location. The method can be carried out easily and allows reliable and accurate monitoring of the rail using a strain sensor member.