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    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 ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    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 ...