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    Assessing the economic life of rail using a stochastic analysis of failures

    Zhao, J. / Chan, A. H. C. / Roberts, C. et al. | British Library Online Contents | 2006
    Publisher: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PUBLICATIONS LIMITED

      Assessing the economic life of rail using a stochastic analysis of failures

      Zhao, J. / Chan, A.H.C. / Roberts, C. et al. | Tema Archive | 2006
      In this article, a model is developed to evaluate the economic life of rail using a stochastic analysis of rail failures. The occurrence of ...

    Decision support at the wheel-rail interface: the development of system functional requirements

    Thanh, V.H. / Roberts, C. / Tobias, A.M. et al. | British Library Online Contents | 2008

    A review on non-destructive evaluation of rails: state-of-the-art and future development

    Papaelias, M.P. / Roberts, C. / Davis, C.L. | British Library Online Contents | 2008

      A review on non-destructive evaluation of rails: State-of-the-art and future development

      Papaelias, M.P. / Roberts, C. / Davis, C.L. | Tema Archive | 2008
      extensively used by the rail industry for the inspection of rails in-service. More recently, automated vision techniques and hybrid systems based on ...

    A pragmatic approach to the condition monitoring of hydraulic level crossing barriers

    Roberts, C. / Marquez, F.P.G. / Tobias, A.M. | British Library Online Contents | 2010

    Using bogie-mounted sensors to understand the dynamics of third rail current collection systems

    Stewart, E. / Weston, P. / Hillmansen, S. et al. | Tema Archive | 2011
    to be addressed. The mechanical design of the system must balance the requirements of good fatigue life with appropriate impact strength ...

      Using bogie-mounted sensors to understand the dynamics of third rail current collection systems

      Stewart, E. / Weston, P. / Hillmansen, S. et al. | British Library Online Contents | 2011

    State of the art for European track maintenance and renewal logistics

    Bouch, C.J. / Roberts, C. | Tema Archive | 2010
    Adopting best practice in the field of track maintenance and renewal logistics is crucial to achieving low costs for Europes railway. But ...

      State of the art for European track maintenance and renewal logistics

      Bouch, C.J. / Roberts, C. | British Library Online Contents | 2010

    Development of a common set of European high-level track maintenance cost categories

    Bouch, C.J. / Roberts, C. / Amoore, J. | Tema Archive | 2010
    infrastructure access, improving the efficiency of IM performance, and helping to focus efforts to reduce track costs. However, very little work has been ...

    Introducing new technology to the railway industry: system-wide incentives and impacts

    Lovell, K. / Bouch, C. / Smith, A. et al. | British Library Online Contents | 2011

    Condition monitoring opportunities using vehicle-based sensors

    Ward, C.P. / Weston, P.F. / Stewart, E.J.C. et al. | Tema Archive | 2011
    improve the capacity and punctuality of the whole system, and this demand must also be balanced with reducing life-cycle costs. Condition ...

    Railway point mechanisms: Condition monitoring and fault detection

    Marquezh, F.P. Garcia / Roberts, C. / Tobias, A.M. | Tema Archive | 2010
    Early attempts at monitoring the condition of railway point mechanisms employed simple thresholding techniques to detect faults, but ...

    Improving railway switch system reliabilitywith innovative condition monitoring algorithms

    Silmon, J.A. / Roberts, C. | Tema Archive | 2010
    capable of achieving a 30 per cent reduction in track LCCs (life-cycle costs). As part of a cost consolidation exercise within the project, it was ...

    Industrial fault diagnosis: Pneumatic train door case study

    Lehrasab, N. / Dassanayake, H.P.B. / Roberts, C. et al. | Tema Archive | 2002
    for economic reasons. The health of the system is ascertained by extracting features from the trajectory profiles of the train door. This is ...

    Modelling passenger flows at a transport interchange using Petri nets

    Takagi, R. / Goodman, C.J. / Roberts, C. | Tema Archive | 2003
    is to be embedded within an optimization procedure for managing the effects of disrupted traffic. Petri nets offer the possibility of the ...

    Energy storage devices in hybrid railway vehicles: A kinematic analysis

    Hillmansen, S. / Roberts, C. | Tema Archive | 2007
    achieve a step change in energy efficiency. This article presents an analysis of the potential benefits of hybridization for rail vehicles. The ...

    Monitoring vertical track irregularity from in-service railway vehicles

    Weston, P.F. / Ling, C.S. / Roberts, C. et al. | Tema Archive | 2007
    proportion of geometric quality measures and specific irregularities can be identified. This paper describes the theory and practical results of ...