Reliable Condition Assessment of Switches and Crossings (S&Cs)
The symposium took place on 28-30 August 2017 at Banedanmark's headquarters in Copenhagen.
Below please find the presentations given during the Symposium in the order they were given:
- “Monitoring during revenue operations for condition based maintenance: the case of ABA measurements in the Netherlands” - Rolf Dollevoet, TU Delft, RailaHead, The Netherlands
- “Acquiring a custom-made sensor-system for turnouts – experiences, recommendations and perspectives” - Tom Elnar Thøgersen, Banedanmark, Denmark
- “Banedanmarks’s new generation of high speed turnouts for the Copenhagen-Ringsted line” - Martin Hyldtoft-Sørensen, Banedanmark, Denmark
- “Trafikverket: Work on condition monitoring of turnouts” - Arne Nissen, Trafikverket, Sweden
- “New more elastic turnouts in Finland“ - Riku Varis, Tampere University of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, Finland
- “Switch and crossing optimal design and evaluations (S-CODE)” - Clive Roberts, University of Birmingham, Centre for Railway Research and Education, United Kingdom
- “Low-complexity behavioral model for predictive maintenance of railway turnouts” - Pegah Barkhordari, DTU Electrical Engineering, Denmark
- “Crack initiation caused by repeated local heating events – Modelling of possible mechanisms” - Johan Ahlström, TU Chalmers, Dept. Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Sweden
- “In situ study of strain partitioning and damage in carbide free bainitic steels using micro digital image correlation” - Ankit Kumar, TU Delft, Material Science and Engineering, The Netherlands
- “Deformation and Damage of a Railway Crossing studied by X-ray Tomography and other methods” - Somrita Dhar, DTU Wind Energy, Denmark
- “Degradation of the rails in Switches & Crossings” - Carsten J. Rasmussen, Banedanmark, Denmark
- “Analysis of failures statistics within railway switches and crossings using FMEA methodology” - Elias Kassa, NTNU, Dept. Civil and Transport Engineering, Norway
- “Experimental analysis and modelling of railway vehicle passing over turnout frog” - Aleš Hába, University of Pardubice, Department of Mechanics, Materials and Machine Parts, Faculty of Transport Engineering, Czech Republic
- “An improved multibody simulation model for switches and crossings. Numerical and experimental results” - Alejandro de Miguel Tejada, DTU Mechanical Engineering, Denmark
- “Probabilistic assessment of railway turnouts using a multibody simulation Software” - Frederik Gadegaard Jacobsen, DTU Mechanical Engineering, Denmark
- “Risk based switch maintenance: lower costs, higher performance” - Jan Swier, ProRail AM, The Netherlands
- “Prognosis of switches – analogies and differences to open track” - Peter Veit, TU Graz, Dept. Railway Engineering and Transport Economy, Austria
- “Analysis of the dynamic effects in the turnout” - Ivan Vukusic, Brno University of Technology, Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Republic
- “On the comparison of manual measurements of switches and crossings and data from a measuring car” - Emil Hovad, DTU Compute, Denmark
- “Design & specification of the track superstructure based on a modelling approach” - René Fongemie, Banedanmark, Denmark