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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

    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 ...

    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 ...

    Assessing the effectiveness of traction gels using full-scale and field testing

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    White, Ben / Hyland-Knight, Jack / Lewis, Roger | SAGE Publications | 2021
    network as a result. This work developed a range of full-scale laboratory and field tests that can be used to assess traction gel performance. The ...

    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 risk-informed decision support tool for the strategic asset management of railway track infrastructure

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    Sasidharan, Manu / Burrow, Michael Peter Nicholas / Ghataora, Gurmel Singh et al. | SAGE Publications | 2022
    The provision of safe, efficient, reliable and affordable railway transport requires the railway track infrastructure to be maintained to ...

    A computational fluid dynamics study of the influence of sleeper shape and ballast depth on ballast flight during passage of a simplified train

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    Pardoe, Lee / Powrie, William / Hu, Zhiwei | SAGE Publications | 2024

    The paper assesses the effect on the air flow regime underneath a simplified high-speed train of changing the ballast depth and the

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    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

    An efficient physical-based method for predicting the long-term evolution of vertical railway track geometries

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    Kumar, Nishant / Kossmann, Claudia / Scheriau, Stephan et al. | SAGE Publications | 2022
    settlement. If these local settlements vary along the track, geometric irregularities develop further amplifying the dynamic loading of the track ...

    Use cases for obstacle detection and track intrusion detection systems in the context of new generation of railway traffic management systems

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    Hyde, Paul / Ulianov, Cristian / Liu, Jin et al. | SAGE Publications | 2022
    In this paper, the concept of Obstacle Detection and Track Intrusion Detection (OD&TID) systems related to the operation of trains is ...

    A review of key planning and scheduling in the rail industry in Europe and UK

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    Turner, Christopher / Tiwari, Ashutosh / Starr, Andrew et al. | SAGE Publications | 2016
    techniques over the last 25 years. Increasingly, the use of computational intelligence in such tasks is featuring more heavily in research ...

    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 ...

    Review of the existing energy labelling systems and a proposal for rail vehicles

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    Liu, Zhendong / Berg, Mats / Bustad, Tohmmy | SAGE Publications | 2021
    energy labelling systems to have their products included. Globally, the transport sector consumes a great proportion of energy and is responsible ...

    Life cycle cost analysis for the top-of-rail friction-modifier application: A case study from the Swedish iron ore line

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    Khan, Saad Ahmed / Lundberg, Jan / Stenström, Christer | SAGE Publications | 2021
    The application of top-of-rail friction modifiers (TOR-FMs) is claimed by their manufacturers as a well-established technique for ...

    Experimental analysis of railway track settlement in transition zones

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    Wang, Haoyu / Markine, Valeri / Liu, Xiangming | SAGE Publications | 2018
    stiffness and settlement in the open track and the engineering structure resulting in the dynamic amplification of the wheel forces, track ...