Necessity and effects of dynamic systems for railway wheel defect detection

State of railway vehicles highly infl uences transport safety due to vehicle derailments and in the same time worsens the quality of freight and passenger transportation. One of important elements that infl uence the state of railway vehicles is the wheel state. Wheel defects are common in railway transport. Therefore, timely defect detection is very important. This paper presents ways and eff ects of timely detection of wheel defects.