WP1, the main objective covered during this period was to close the selection of materials and manufacturing process together with the preliminary risk analysis according the demonstrator and requirements defined in the previous period. The main drivers for the developments continue being weight reduction and cost reduction, through functional integration and simplification of the assemblies.
WP2. The objective is to applying the composite technology in the railway industry through the development of conceptual designs of the demonstrators defined in WP1. The second and final period was used to finalice all activities iniciated during the fisrt period. Conceptual design has been finished, Engineering assessments have been performed and general overview to perform FMEA and Risk Analyisis FMECA have been done. The methodologies have been analised to incorporate Composite products to the rail Industry.
All taks of WP3 have followed an independent workflow although collaboration and sharing of information with colloberative projects has occurred throughout the process. The objectives stated at the beginning of the project have been accomplished and different innovations have been designed and tested. The results obtained with the different innovations are satisfactory.
To contribute to the aims of WP4, during this reporting period it has been worked mainly on the development of new materials and designs for running gear components and virtual validation.
To reach these objectives of WP5 in the second reporting period a laboratory prototype of electronic compatible with high SIL level is developed based on general specification and requirements agreed upon. Also, two variants of electro-mechanic braking system demonstrator are developed (one with conventional disk brake mechanics with hangers as an interface to the bogie and the other one with compact disk brake mechanics). Laboratory tests of new friction material pairings are conducted, and the results are published. Furthermore, the feasibility of proposed virtual validation and certification concept has been confirmed on the example of wheel slide protection system.
WP6. Based on the specifications published during the first period, the experiments and design studies have been pursued in order to define the concept on the different topics. The integration study to assemble the improvement in one mock-up and / or demonstration have been pursued with especially design improvement for door sealing that will be tested at a later stage, a new design of the swinging arm for the locking of the lower rear corners of the door leaves and for the synchronisation of the high / low door movement (tests on going) and new operator integration.
WP7: The objective for Interiors and Cabin in the second phase of PIVOT was to estimate the capabilities of the existing possibilities and validated new potential offers between 2020 and 2025. During the second project period the following activities were performed:
• Continue the technical watch of quick fixation systems on the market and identify few first products pertinent to use for Interiors.
• Realise a Design to Cost study for Interiors
• Define the vision of Interiors to develop during PIVOT-2
• Define the Roadmap for the next 3 years for Cabin.
• Define the tasks of the Open Call 2019 to work with the best efficiency with PIVOT-2 : increase the knowledge and the capability to have quick wins
WP8 covers the project activities on dissemination, communication and exploitation. PIVOT website was maintained during the project lifetime on continually bases to keep th e project status up to date and to share public deliverables and dessimination material. Further, the data management plan for the project will be updated to list all the generated digital data of PIVOT. The final report on the dissemination and exploitation activities was submitted at the end of the project.
WP9 deals with the administrative work of PIVOT - to manage and coordinate the project including the involved benificiaries. Periodical meetings took place and the WP reports were presented during the TMT and SC meetings. The recommendations report was submitted at the end of the project. Additionally, the lessons learnt and best practises were presented during the 17th IP1 SC and the kick off meeting od PIVOT2.
