Project description
Solutions for rail track maintenance and monitoring
Railway networks are at the core of modern commerce, trade, and transport. Their maintenance and development are particularly important for a vast number of private and industrial sectors. Due to their complex interaction with rolling stocks, railway tracks are at risk of structural degradation over time, posing a threat to railway operations and passenger safety. Modern sensors and Information and communication technologies (ICT) could provide better monitoring over track and train maintenance. Also, their need for batteries or larger power sources makes them sub-optimal. The EU-funded ETERNAL project will address this issue through highly efficient piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters for the rail track sensor system.
Objective
Railway track and rolling stock interact with each other, forming a complex dynamic system which leads to structural degradation of railway assets with time, as such, pose a threat to not only safety, but comfortable rail operations. Modern ICT and sensing technologies could ensure a safe, secure and efficient transport network. However, greater connectivity and sensor coverage along tracks which require no mains power or batteries for energy supply, eliminating the costs for cabling and battery replacement, and minimum gateway installations, are critical for the success of industry adoptions. As such, the ETERNAL fellowship is providing a solution towards to the development of self-powered Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices for railway system by harvesting the vibration energy when the train travels. Through new, insightful laboratory investigations supported by numerical simulations, a vibration-based piezoelectric energy harvesting prototype is developed for the railway system. ETERNAL establishes inner links between the excitation source and the component natural frequency in rail track systems, and develops the piezoelectric ceramics by combining texturing process and multilayered structure together, which take the functionality (large output current, high energy density, low cost, and high mechanical strength) of the piezoelectric vibration energy harvester (PVEH) to the next level. This fellowship advances the underpinning technology for developing an energy harvester with the ultimate goal of developing self-powered IoT devices, which expected to transform rail track monitoring capability and ensure a more sustainable railway development in the 21st century, in the EU and internationally.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2020
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