Authors : Fereydoun Moghadasnejhad, Saeid Mohamadkhah and Hamzeh Zakeri
Abstract: One of the most important needs of today’s world is creating a safe and reliable rail network with a acceptable capacity. In the present age, railway network with advances in technology, changes in the environment and consumer demand has improved and operational activities of the system is up dated. Expansion of the rail network in the region will have certainly a lot cost. Therefore, on time and suitable maintenance of railway lines could keep the national capital and provides a bigger budget for the construction of new line. On the other hand, lack of timely detection of failures created on rails, sleepers, ballast and defects created in the geometry of the line will allow conditions for the rapid decline before the intended time. Thus, on time failure detection, creating the proper planning and regular inspections and timely detection defects rail lines can prevent rail from premature deterioration and erosion. In this study, we have tried to scheduling repair and maintenance of railway lines by using expert system. For this purpose, after expressing some concept of maintenance system of rail and expert system and check system failures and shortcomings of the rail line, we try to discuss the method of calculating the index number of failures. The results show that providing an expert system according to the database that is in its place like an expert entity and responsive at all times and in all circumstances perform appropriate interpretation.
Fereydoun Moghadasnejhad, Saeid Mohamadkhah and Hamzeh Zakeri, 2016. Evaluation of Expert System in Scheduling of Repair and Maintenance of Railway Lines. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 11: 23-31.