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PRODUCTS AND LITERATURE installed on a hi-railer or a track inspection car where it captures high-resolution images of joint bars and uses advanced processing algorithms on the images to detect cracks. The system reports every exception located during an inspection, and, if required, provides a GPS location inventory of all rail joints on the line. Other features of the system include refined detection of very small cracks and improved detection of non-uniform rail conditions such as water-streaked rail and rail cluttered with debris. Phone: 703-321-9000. coating derived from functional nanomaterial that could be applied between a primer and topcoat and fluoresces once a corrosion product is generated from metal. The researchers used aluminum, but the chemistry can be tweaked for other metals. The material is two to three years from commercialization. Phone: 410-306-8638. Corrosion detection Battelle researchers have created a smart PEOPLE RailAmerica Inc. named Gabe Lazzaro vice president of human resources. development. Robert Schlaefli becomes vice president, engineering and operations. Interfleet Inc. named Peter Taslimi to the Burlington, Ont., Canada, office and Kevin Johnson to the Philadelphia office. Parsons Brinckerhoff appointed Rhonda Boyer a senior environmental manager in PB’s Houston office. RailComm named Morelle Cheney business development manager, Midwest Region, based in Kansas City. STV named Milo E. Riverso, Ph.D., P.E., president. David M. Thomson, P.E., appointed vice president and director of rail for the western region of the firm’s Transportation and Infrastructure Division, based in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. Thomson will serve as project manager for the firm’s work with the California High Speed Rail Authority, leading environmental and engineering services for the Los Angeles Union Station-to-Orange County segment of the project. He will also provide direction for the firm’s other West Coast rail infrastructure projects. SYSTRA USA named Diego Diaz president and chief executive officer. Suppliers Brandt Road Rail Corporation named Erin Found territory manager (Western USA). ENSCO, Inc., named Boris Nejikovsky vice president of ENSCO’s Rail Technologies Division. Exalt Communications named Michael Frausing senior vice president, worldwide sales. Rod Perry appointed vice president of business 40 Railway Track & Structures March 2009 www.rtands.com http://www.rtands.com

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