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    Evaluation of the influential parameters contributing to the reconstruction of railway wheel defect signals

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    Alemi, Alireza / Corman, Francesco / Pang, Yusong et al. | SAGE Publications | 2020
    A wheel impact load detector is used to assess the condition of a railway wheel by measuring the dynamic forces generated by defects. This ...

    Lightweighting of railway axles for the reduction of unsprung mass and track access charges

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    Mistry, PJ / Johnson, MS | SAGE Publications | 2020
    The potential for lightweighting of railway axles was investigated to primarily reduce the unsprung mass of rail vehicles. The reduction of ...

    Evaluation of air quality at the Birmingham New Street Railway Station

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    Hickman, AL / Baker, CJ / Cai, X et al. | SAGE Publications | 2018
    made at the Birmingham New Street station, a major rail interchange in the Midlands of England, with a mix of diesel and electric train ...
    Keywords: oxides of nitrogen

    Improving the performance of finite element simulations on the wheel–rail interaction by using a coupling strategy

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    Ma, Yuewei / Markine, Valeri L / Mashal, Abdul Ahad et al. | SAGE Publications | 2018
    Over the past few years, a number of implicit/explicit finite element models have been introduced for the purpose of tackling the problems ...

    A review of the technological developments for interlocking at level crossing

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    Fayyaz, Muhammad Asad Bilal / Alexoulis-Chrysovergis, Aris C / Southgate, Matthew J et al. | SAGE Publications | 2021
    A Level Crossing remains as one of the highest risk assets within the railway system often depending on the unpredictable behaviour of road ...

    Acoustic roughness measurement of railway tracks: Implementation of an optical measurement approach & possible improvements to the standard

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    Mauz, Florian / Wigger, Remo / Wahl, Tobias et al. | SAGE Publications | 2022
    The measure for assessing the acoustic quality of the rail surfaces, the acoustic roughness, is defined in the EN 15610 standard. It is ...

    Studying the transfer mechanisms of water based top-of-rail products in a wheel/rail interaction

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    Lee, Zing Siang / Trummer, Gerald / Harmon, Matthew et al. | SAGE Publications | 2024

    The railway industry uses top-of-rail products to control and manage the friction in the wheel/rail interface to help ensure efficient

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    Keywords: Top-of-rail friction modifiers

    A vision for a lightweight railway wheelset of the future

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    Bruni, Stefano / Mistry, Preetum J / Johnson, Michael S et al. | SAGE Publications | 2022
    Rail vehicle lightweighting using fibre reinforced polymer composite materials is essential for the future of rail. This is recognised as a ...

    Estimating the relative cost of track damage mechanisms: combining economic and engineering approaches

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    Smith, Andrew / Iwnicki, Simon / Kaushal, Aniruddha et al. | SAGE Publications | 2017
    This paper proposes a new, two-stage methodology to estimate the relative marginal cost of different types of vehicles running on the rail ...

    An integrated numerical framework to investigate the running safety of overlong freight trains

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    Krishna, Visakh V / Jobstfinke, Daniel / Melzi, Stefano et al. | SAGE Publications | 2021
    Long freight trains up to 1500 m in length are currently not in regular operation in Europe. One of the important reasons for the same is ...