Permanently installed monitoring systems, which make use of guided wave ultrasound, can monitor long distances of rail track from a single transducer location.
Reference:
Setshedi, I. et al. 2018. Adaptive SAFE model of a rail for parameter estimation. Eleventh South African Conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics (SACAM 2018), Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, 17-19 September 2018
Setshedi, I., Long, C. S., Loveday, P. W., & Wilke, D. N. (2018). Adaptive SAFE model of a rail for parameter estimation. SACAM. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10900
Setshedi, Itumeleng, Craig S Long, Philip W Loveday, and Daniel N Wilke. "Adaptive SAFE model of a rail for parameter estimation." (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10900
Setshedi I, Long CS, Loveday PW, Wilke DN, Adaptive SAFE model of a rail for parameter estimation; SACAM; 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10900 .
Conference paper delivered at the Eleventh South African Conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics (SACAM 2018), Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, 17-19 September 2018