Descripción del proyecto
Solución innovadora y rentable para evitar descarrilamientos
La desalineación de las vías férreas, causada por una resistencia lateral insuficiente, plantea un reto importante a la industria del transporte. Este problema, conocido como desalineación o pandeo de la vía, provoca fuerzas dinámicas adicionales en los vehículos y aumenta el riesgo de descarrilamiento. En Europa, las operaciones de mantenimiento de las vías para restablecer la alineación representan un importante 26 % del mantenimiento, y los costes de renovación superan los dos millones de euros anuales. En este contexto, el proyecto DINTRA, financiado con fondos europeos, introducirá una solución innovadora capaz de mejorar notablemente la resistencia lateral de las vías y reducir significativamente los costes. Mediante la construcción de tres elementos de demostración avanzados en condiciones difíciles, el proyecto pretende eliminar los costosos casos de abolladura de las vías, reducir los descarrilamientos y revolucionar las prácticas de mantenimiento de las vías.
Objetivo
Railway track lateral movement occurs when lateral resistance is not enough hold track in place. This movement is known as track misalignment (when it is a progressive defect associated to train loads) or track buckle (when it is an abrupt event associated mainly to unusually high temperatures).Track alignment must be restored as even small track misalignments induce additional dynamic forces in the vehicle.
Track maintenance operations to restore track alignment (tamping) require 26% of track maintenance and renewal cost (2.989M€/year in Europe). Besides, cost of rail grinding and renewal operations are estimated to be around 10% of total EU railway maintenance and renewal costs (1.118M€/year).
Moreover track misalignment eventually causes a great risk of derailment. It is estimated that around 25% of train derailments are due to track geometry deterioration, causing on average 18 derailment per year in Europe with an associated economic loss of 32M€, not considering the potential human losses.
To solve this situation, ACCISA has developed DINTRA sleepers, and innovative solution capable of increasing significantly track lateral resistance. Reduction of track maintenance and renewal cost and track buckle events and derailments due to track misalignment will be experienced. DINTRA sleepers have a low implementation cost and no need of extra calculation or new equipment for their implementation.
Our overall objective with the present project is to industrialize the production process of DINTRA sleeper to introduce them into the international market through the construction of three advanced demonstration element in the most complex and demanding conditions.
When implementing DINTRA sleepers, railway infrastructure managers will save over 978M€ in track maintenance and renewal cost during the life span of the product (40 years), while only investing 53.7M€. DINTRA sleepers will lead to 13.7M€ of benefits for ACCISA by the 5th year.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- H2020-EU.3.4. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Smart, Green And Integrated Transport Main Programme
- H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
- H2020-EU.2.3.1. - Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument
Tema(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017
Régimen de financiación
SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinador
39408 LOS CORRALES DE BUELNA
España
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.