Modelling and Enhancing Track Support Through Railway Switches & Crossings
Author : Pedro Jorge
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN :
Advances in Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks
Author : Matthijs Klomp
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1917 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3030380777
Book Description
This book gathers together papers presented at the 26th IAVSD Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks, held on August 12 – 16, 2019, at the Lindholmen Conference Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden. It covers cutting-edge issues related to vehicle systems, including vehicle design, condition monitoring, wheel and rail contact, automated driving systems, suspension and ride analysis, and many more topics. Written by researchers and practitioners, the book offers a timely reference guide to the field of vehicle systems dynamics, and a source of inspiration for future research and collaborations.
Intelligent Quality Assessment of Railway Switches and Crossings
Author : Roberto Galeazzi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3030624722
Book Description
This book focuses on the latest scientific and technological advancements in the field of railway turnout engineering. It offers a holistic approach to the scientific investigation of the factors and mechanisms determining performance degradation of railway switches and crossings (S&Cs), and the consequent development of condition monitoring systems that will enable infrastructure managers to transition towards the implementation of predictive maintenance. The book is divided into three distinct parts. Part I discusses the modelling of railway infrastructure, including switch and crossing systems, while Part II focuses on metallurgical characterization. This includes the microstructure of in-field loaded railway steel and an analysis of rail screw failures. In turn, the third and final part discusses condition monitoring and asset management. Given its scope, the book is of interest to both academics and industrial practitioners, helping them learn about the various challenges characterizing this engineering domain and the latest solutions to properly address them.
Operations research models for scheduling railway infrastructure maintenance
Author : Gabriella Budai-Balke
Publisher : Rozenberg Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
ISBN : 9036101263
Book Description
This thesis can be divided into two parts. In Part I we are dealing with the problem of finding optimal time intervals for carrying out routine maintenance works and large projects in such a way that the track possession costs and maintenance costs are minimized. In Part II of this thesis we focus on rescheduling of the rolling stock in the passenger railways due to changing circumstances and more precisely on the Rolling Stock Rebalancing Problem (RSRP). The main objectives of this thesis are formulated as follows: 1. Review the existing literature on maintenance planning in relation with production. 2. Identify some tactical and operational railway infrastructure maintenance planning problems and develop operations research models for providing decision support. Investigate the effect of planning railway infrastructure maintenance on the train operation and identify rolling stock planning problems that occur during planned infrastructure maintenance. 3. Analyze the considered models, investigate their computational complexity, propose solution methods and test the solutions of the models.
Degradation Processes of Railway Switches
Author : Willem-Jan Zwanenburg
Publisher : Sudwestdeutscher Verlag Fur Hochschulschriften AG
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783838105161
Book Description
Approximately 25 percent of the budget for the maintenance and renewal of railway tracks -in Switzerland more than a billion Swiss Franks- is used for the switches (a.k.a. points or turnouts) and crossings (S&C). While in the mean time the budget expenditure for the maintenance and renewal of plain track is optimized with e.g. the help of decision support systems, for S&C this optimisation stays rather rudimentary. One of the identified causes thereof is the lack of insight in the degradation and deterioration process of S&C. This study therefore combined several databases of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS). Statistical analyses are carried out on them to retrieve the lifetime of expectancy of complete railway S&C and their respective components, e.g. point rails, stock rails, frog. The expected lifetimes are attributed to different parameters which influence the speed of geometrical degradation or wear of the material, e.g. total train loads (expressed in cumulative tonnages), axle loads, the main direction of the trains, the speed and the quality of the foundation.
The Manchester Benchmarks for Rail Vehicle Simulation
Author : S. Iwnicki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 135140993X
Book Description
This volume contains the results of the Manchester Benchmarking exercise for railway vehicle dynamics simulation packages. Five of the main computer packages currently used for this purpose were examined in the exercise and the results are presented in the form of tables and graphs.
Prospects for Improving the Conspicuity of Trains at Passive Railway Crossings
Author : Peter Cairney
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Highway-railroad grade crossings
ISBN :
Book Description
Track Design Handbook for Light Rail Transit
Author :
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309258243
Book Description
TCRP report 155 provides guidelines and descriptions for the design of various common types of light rail transit (LRT) track. The track structure types include ballasted track, direct fixation ("ballastless") track, and embedded track. The report considers the characteristics and interfaces of vehicle wheels and rail, tracks and wheel gauges, rail sections, alignments, speeds, and track moduli. The report includes chapters on vehicles, alignment, track structures, track components, special track work, aerial structures/bridges, corrosion control, noise and vibration, signals, traction power, and the integration of LRT track into urban streets.
INNOTRACK : concluding technical report ; [innovative track systems]
Author : Anders Ekberg
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Railroad tracks
ISBN : 9782746118508
Book Description
The track structure, rails, switches and crossings account for more than 50% of maintenance and renewal costs for the rail industry. To improve the competitiveness of rail transportation, the cost-efficiency of these areas needs to be addressed. This is the background to INNOTRACK, an integrated research project funded by the European Commission's 6th research framework programme. Running from September 2006 to December 2009, INNOTRACK has developed a multitude of innovative solutions in the areas of track substructure, rails & welds, and switches & crossings. The solutions have been assessed from technical, logistics and life cycle cost point of views.
Advances in Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks II
Author : Anna Orlova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1274 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3031073053
Book Description
This book offers a snapshot of the latest research and developments in road and railway vehicle dynamics. Gathering peer-reviewed contributions to the 27th Symposium of the International Association of Vehicle System Dynamics (IAVSD), held online on August 17–19, 2021, from Saint Petersburg, Russia, it offers extensive information for both researchers and professionals in the field of ground vehicle dynamics, control and design. It covers cutting-edge methods and solutions for solving ground vehicle system dynamics-related problems, concerning control and monitoring, performance, safety and braking of road and rail vehicles, including electric and autonomous ones. Further, it reports on significant advances in vehicle design, and important applications to improve ride comfort. Overall, the book provides academics and professional with a timely reference guide on theories and methods to understand, analyze and improve vehicle stability and dynamics in a broad range of different operating conditions. Chapter "Experimental Validation of a Semi-physical Modelling Approach of the Influence of Tyre Rotation on the Vertical Tyre Force Transmission and Tyre Kinematics" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
