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    Rethinking rail track switches for fault tolerance and enhanced performance

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    Bemment, Samuel D / Ebinger, Emma / Goodall, Roger M et al. | SAGE Publications | 2017
    laboratory. Details of the novel arrangement and concept are provided herein. This concept is considered as an advance on the state of the art. This ...

    Railway track switch simulation: a new dynamic model for studying actuator and switch blade dynamics

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    Li, Linxiao / Dutta, Saikat / Dixon, Roger et al. | SAGE Publications | 2023
    contributions that should be of use to researchers and engineers concerned with the design of switches and their actuation mechanisms. First, an ...

    Improving the reliability and availability of railway track switching by analysing historical failure data and introducing functionally redundant subsystems

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    Bemment, Samuel D / Goodall, Roger M / Dixon, Roger et al. | SAGE Publications | 2018
    , the aeronautical and nuclear industries. This paper models the adoption of a functional redundancy approach to the functional subsystems of ...

    Fault-tolerant control for sensor faults affecting an electromechanical railway track switch

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    Mwongera, Precious K / Midgley, Will J / Dixon, Roger et al. | SAGE Publications | 2023
    and tested on a simulation model of the system, before being applied to an experimental actuation system in the laboratory. Both the ...