Majority of instances of locomotive breakdown in the Malayan Railway has been due to failures of traction motors. Such failures have caused the Railway a substantial downtime costs and passenger complaints. The scheme to monitor traction motors based on vibration measurement of locomotives entering the workshop was implemented from August, 1988. Analysis consisted of 500Hz FFT and 20 kHz one-third octave spectrum comparison, overall RMS comparison and trending the vibration ...
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