Objective
The project focuses on design & manufacture of new construction concepts of special track work for rail infrastructure that are: low maintenance, high quality, safer, risk mitigating & low noise. Complete turnouts will be considered in the research project (frog and switch area) with exclusion of control systems. At the start of the project, two different modelling procedures for impact force calculation during vehicle running in turnouts will be compared for their performance and validated. A first comparison will be made comparing measurement and modelling results on a reference turnout. Further refinement will be made by updating modelling results by means of measurement results on six different turnout systems which are representative forth conventional turnouts used today in urban rail transport networks (WP 1).
Also at the start of the project large number of potential design measures for reducing impact forces will be defined. A conceptual design study of these design measures will be made (WP2).
In the second phase of the project, 7 test sites will be selected (end-users) and for each test site the most optimal new turnout design will be developed (iterative procedure interims of refining selected turnout or in terms of selection a new turnout design) (WP3).
The developed new turnout systems will be manufactured (WP4),
tested in the lab and installed on site. This will include the use of new materials, new manufacturing techniques and new installation techniques. Their performance will be measured and compared against the calculated results (WP5).
At the end of the project, conclusions will be drawn in work package 6.The consortium includes the main European turnout manufacturers, research and engineering partners, contractor and three end-users.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering control systems
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry transition metals
- natural sciences mathematics pure mathematics geometry
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2002-TRANSPORT-1
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Coordinator
Belgium
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