Rail Car Testing Concerned with the structural integrity of hundreds of aging passenger railcars, one of the nation’s busiest rapid-transit systems turned to ITM for answers. The Solution Obvious signs of fatigue — cracks at the corners of the railcar doors — had begun to surface on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authorities’ 1000 Series railcars, a model that dates back to the early-70’s and represented roughly a quarter of WMAT A ’s ?eet. The challenges ahead for the public transit system were to repair the cracked areas then validate the integrity of the repairs. Seeking an engineering ?rm that could quickly validate the integrity of the repaired railcars, government consulting ?rm Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) brought in engineers from Integrated Test & Measurement (ITM),

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