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Railway Engineering-2009 Programme v.8
Venue: University of Westminster 35 Marylebone Road London NW1, UK |
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Conference "Icebreaker": Authors, All Delegates & Exhibitors invited 7.00 pm, Tuesday 23rd June 2009 Venue: Restaurant Foyer, Exhibition Hall: University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1, UK |
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Day 1: Wednesday 24th June 2009 08.45: Registration - Exhibition Hall |
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08.45 - 09.30 Coffee – Exhibition Hall |
| 09.30: Conference Opening + Keynote Papers - Chair: Prof MC Forde, PhD, FREng, FRSE, CEng, FICE, FIET, University of Edinburgh |
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Keynote Papers: Lecture Room 'A': 1. RESEARCH PRIORITIES FOR THE 2030 RAILWAY, Professor Roderick Smith, FREng, RAEng Network Rail Research Professor, Imperial College, London, UK
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10.30 – 11.00 Coffee – Exhibition Hall |
| 11.00 - 13.00: Parallel Sessions |
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Lecture Room 'A': Hogg Lecture Theatre |
Lecture Room 'B': Cayley Lecture Theatre | Lecture Room 'C': Wood Lecture Theatre |
| Chair: M Taubert | Chair: Dr W J Zwanenburg | Chair: Andy Savage |
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Rail Inspection MONITORING RAIL CORRUGATION IN DISTANCE-WAVELENGTH DOMAIN USING ARCAP METHOD, Cl Hory, P Aknin, L Bouillaut, INRETS, Arcueil Cedex, S Bondeux, RATP, Fonyenay s/s Bois, France. MEASUREMENT & ANALYSIS OF MID WAVELENGTH RAIL IRREGULARITY, A Bracciali, T De Cicco, F Piccioli, Univ degli Studi di Firenze, Italy NEW DEVELOPMENTS FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVE RAIL TESTING, T Heckel, Dr. HM Thomas, BAM, Berlin & S Rühe PLR, Magdeburg, Germany Rail Behaviour MAPS-SFT – A NEW APPROACH TO THE MANAGEMENT OF STRESS FREE TEMPERATURE IN CWR, G Eckold & A Hayes, MAPS Technology Ltd, Abingdon, UK WEAR & RCF BEHAVIOUR OF CONVENTIONAL & HARD RAILS IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS, A Bracciali, T De Cicco, F Piccioli, Univ degli Studi di Firenze, Italy Rail Grinding HIGH SPEED GRINDING, M Taubert, Dr K von Diest & A Puschel,Stahlberg Roensch GmbH & Co, Hamburg, Germany Wheel-Rail–Rolling Stock Interaction-Tilting Trains-1 ADHESION AT THE WHEEL/RAIL INTERFACE, T Armitage, Arup, Solihull, T Hilton, PWC, London, UK USING GOTCHA TO OPTIMISE THE VEHICLE / TRACK INTERFACE & REDUCE MAINTENANCE COSTS, I Vermeij, Lloyd’s Register Rail Europe B.V, The Netherlands |
Railway Design/Alignment/Standards-1 ASPECTS OF CEN STANDARD FOR PLAIN LINE ALIGNMENTS, Dr B Kufver, Ferroplan, Linköping & O Rydell, Vectura, Solna, Sweden FUNCTION INTEGRATED TRACK SYSTEMS, Prof E Hohnecker, Univ of Karlsruhe, Germany MANIFESTO FOR A MODEL RAILWAY, MG Eaden, Mott MacDonald Railways, Croydon, UK NEW STANDARD FOR STATIC & DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR ASSESSMENT OF RAILWAY TRACK SYSTEMS, M Acquati, Metropolitana Milanese SpA, G Bono, Studio Tecnico ing Bono, Lecco, A Castoldi, P&P Consultino Engineers, Bergamo, & P Pezzoli,INDAPRO Indagini e Progetti, Bergamo, Italy TRACKLINE TWO™ – A STEP CHANGE IN MEASUREMENT OF TRACK GEOMETRY, A Powell, S King, E Chillingworth, DeltaRail Group Ltd, Derby, UK MANAGEMENT OF LARGE LATERAL FORCES IN SHARP CURVES USING AXLE-BOX ACCELERATION & TRACK IRREGULARITIES, H Tanaka & A Furukawa, RTRI, Tokyo, Japan TRACK FORCES & THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO DEGRADATION OF TRACK GEOMETRY, Dr H Hawari & Dr MH Murray, Queensland Rail, Brisbane, Australia EVALUATION OF TRACK GEOMETRY STANDARDS BY NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS – PROPOSAL FOR EVOLUTIONS, V Bourgoin & F Coudert, SNCF, La Plaine Saint-Denis, France
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Increasing Railway Capacity & Costings AGENT BASED CONTROL DELIVERS MORE BANG PER BUCK, I McCullogh, Ansaldo STS, London, UK SIMULATION MODEL FOR MIXED TRAFFIC ON SWEDISH DOUBLE-TRACK LINE, O Lindfeldt, Royal Inst of Tech, Stockholm, Sweden COMPARING THE INCOMPARABLE: COST STRUCTURES OF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, Dipl.-Ing. R Schröter, Stuttgarter Strassenbahnen AG, Germany THE ENGINEERING ISSUES OF TRAM-TRAINS, Prof L Lesley, Liverpool, UK ACCESSIBILITY FOR PERSONS WITH REDUCED MOBILITY, Dr Z Popovic, L Puzavac & Dr D Plamenac, Univ of Belgrade, Serbia Management Planning & Operation-1 SAFETY HAZARD MANAGEMENT USING CASE BASED REASONING (CBR), Dr J Campbell, Dr S Smith & Prof MC Forde, Univ of Edinburgh, Scotland & A Green, Carillion plc, Wolverhampton, UK IMPROVEMENT OF TRACK MAINTENANCE BY CONTINIOUS MONITORING WITH REGULARLY SCHEDULED HIGH-SPEED TRAINS, KU Wolter, Deutsche Bahn AG, Muenchen, Germany |
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13.00 – 14.00 Lunch – Exhibition Hall |
| 14.00 - 16.00: Parallel Sessions |
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Lecture Room 'A': Hogg Lecture Theatre |
Lecture Room 'B': Cayley Lecture Theatre | Lecture Room 'C': Wood Lecture Theatre |
| Chair: Dr Bjorn Kufver | Chair: Prof A Bracciali | Chair: Dr G S Ghataora |
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Wheel-Rail–Rolling Stock Interaction-Tilting Trains-2 COMPARATIVE PROCEDURE FOR ASSESSING WHEEL/RAIL CONTACT FORCES AMONG DIFFERENT SLAB TRACKFORMS IN A METRO TUNNEL, M Acquati, B Cavagna, Metropolitana Milanese S.p.A, Milan, Italy, Dr B Lechner, Dr W Stahl & Dr J liu, TU Munchen, Germany TRANSVERSAL & LONGITUDINAL FORCES EXERTED ON THE TRACK – PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS, Dr C Pyrgidis, Aristotle Univ of Thessaloniki, Greece NUMERICAL TOOL FOR STUDYING WHEEL-RAIL CONTACT & WEAR, S H Mai, F Le-Corre Alstom Transport, Saint-Ouen & B Nedjar, Institut Navier ENPC, Marne-La-Vallee, France Light Rail: Metros & Trams TRACKWORK RELIABILITY, MAINTAINABILITY, AVAILABILITY & SAFETY (RAMS) FOR A METRO PROJECT, M Acquati, & G Garlone, Metropolitana Milanese SpA, Milan, C Venturino, D’Appolonia SpA, Genoa, Italy INTEGRATING A MODERN TRAM INTO A HISTORIC CITY, SM Ney, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Edinburgh, UK LIGHT RAIL OPERATION D’APRČS BOSTRAB CHALLENGES FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE , R Schröter, Stuttgarter strassenbahnen AG, Germany ENGINEERING NEW LIGHT RAIL SCHEME - CASE STUDIES, Prof LJS Lesley, Tram Power Ltd, Liverpool, UK |
Points & Switches SWITCH & TURNOUT DESIGN FOR A RELIABLE RAILWAY, D Bateman, Interfleet Technology Ltd, London, UK TURNOUT & TRACK MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, Dr J Madejski, Silesian Univ of Technology, Gliwice, Poland TURNOUT SYSTEM VIBRATION SIMULATION DURING TILTING TRAIN IN OPERATION, KY Eum, KRRI, Uiwang City, Korea POLYPROPYLENE REINFORCED CONCRETE PLATES FOR TRAM TURNOUTS PAVING, Prof S Lakusic, Prof M Skazlic & Prof V Tkalcevic Lakusic, Univ of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia TURNOUTS & WHAT MAKES THEM WEAR, Dr W Jan Zwanenburg, EPFL-ENAC-LITEP, Lausanne, Switzerland ANALYSIS OF DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR OF TURNOUT STRUCTURES, Dr J Smutny, L Pazdera, I Vukusic TU-Brno, Czech Republic PREDICTION OF INTENSITY OF VIBRATION AROUND CROSSING PART OF MANGANESE TURNOUT, K Y Eum, KRRI, Uiwang City, Korea |
Management Planning & Operation-2 SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO MINIMUM ACTIONS, Dr L Smith & G Evans, Corus Rail Technologies, Rotherham, UK RISK BASED MAINTENANCE DECISION MAKING SYSTEM FOR RAILWAY ASSET MANAGEMENT, Dr M An, S Huang & Prof C Baker, Univ of Birmingham, UK ENHANCED DECISION SUPPORT FOR RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE, P Pace & P Cosoli, Mermec Group, Monopoli, Italy TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN RAILWAYS, Dr M Burrow, G Ghataora, C Roberts & M Clarke, Univ of Birmingham, UK 21ST CENTURY: A CENTURY OF RAILWAYS, RK Upadhyay, CAO/COFMOW & M Goel, CME/IROAF, India Railway Engineering-1 GENERALIZED ENERGY INDEX (GEI) FOR EVALUATING DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF VEHICLE/TRACK SYSTEM, W Wang, L Jinzhao, China Academy of Railway Sciences, Beijing, China ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERISTICS OF POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY (PSD) OF TRACK IRREGULARITY ON EXISTING RAILWAY LINES, X Liu, D Chen, & W Wang, China Academy of Railway Sciences, Beijing, China |
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16.00 – 16.30 Tea – Exhibition Hall |
| 16.30 - 17.30: Open Discussion Forum |
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Lecture Room 'A': Hogg Lecture Theatre |
| Chair: Professor M C Forde, University of Edinburgh |
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Open Discussion Forum - all Delegates + Exhibitors invited: **Innovation Session** Increasing Railway Capacity & Reducing Possessions |
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Social Event - Conference Dinner (OPTIONAL by TICKET Ł77) 19.30 for 20.00 East India Club, 16 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LH (please note East India Club's strict Dress Code: men - jackets & ties; ladies - dress/skirt or tailored trousers; no trainers or blue jeans) |
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Day 2: Thursday 25th June 2009 08.45: Registration - Exhibition Hall |
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08.45 - 09.30 Coffee – Exhibition Hall |
| 09.30 - 10.30: Parallel Sessions | |||
| Lecture Room 'A': Hogg Lecture Theatre | Lecture Room 'B': Cayley Lecture Theatre | Lecture Room 'C': Wood Lecture Theatre' | Lecture Room 'D': Class Room G73 |
| Chair: Prof E Hohnecker | Chair: R Leach | Chair: Dr D A Gunn | Chair: R Schröter |
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Trackbed & Subgrade Inspection & Monitoring-1 TRACK SUBSTRUCTURE CHARACTERIZATION USING 500 MHz & 2 GHz GPR: COLORADO, WYOMING & ALASKA, R Roberts, GSSI, Salem NH, USA, A Kathage, GSSI, Borken, Germany, I Al-Qadi & E Tutumler, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA GPR TRACKBED CONSTRUCTION CORRECTED FOR BALLAST TOPOGRAPHY, W Throssel, Fugro Aperio, Cambridge, UK LABORATORY STUDY OF RAILWAY BALLAST DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR, X Shi & NH Thom, Univ of Nottingham, UK |
Electrification & Lighting -1 UNDERSTANDING POWER SUPPLY FROM A RAILWAY OPERATING COMPANY’S PERSPECTIVE, D Hetherington, Mott MacDonald, Croydon & G White, London Underground, UK NEW GENERATION OF AWS INDUCTORS, ESTABLISHED VALUES, MODERN TECHNOLOGY, R Bointon, Vortok International, Plymouth, UK CERAMIC SOLVES TYPICAL PROBLEMS OF INSULATION RAIL JOINTS, J Bos, Movares, Utrecht, The Netherlands ELECTRIFYING THE MOUND TUNNEL CENTRE BORE, M Wilmot, Ove Arup & Partners Ltd, Manchester, UK |
Geosynthetics in Trackbeds EARLY PERFORMANCE AUDITS OF GEOSAND IN OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT, J.E. Barker, Scott Wilson, Nottingham, P Sharley, WTB Geotechnics, Bristol, UK COMPOSITES AT BALLAST/SUBGRADE INTERFACE IN RAILWAY TRACK FOUNDATIONS, G S Ghataora & M P Burrow , Univ of Birmingham, UK LAB MEASUREMENTS OF BALLASTED TRACK MODELS REINFORCED BY GEOSYNTHETICS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS, L Hornicek, M Lidmila & P Tyc, Czech Tech Univ in Prague, Czech Republic FULL-SCALE CYCLIC GEOPAVEMENT & RAILWAY ACCELERATED FATIGUE TESTING FACILITY, JH Kennedy, PK Woodward, G Medero, J McKinney, Heriot-Watt Univ, Edinburgh, Scotland |
Sleepers & Ties-1 HIGH ATTENUATION SLEEPER, I Robertson, F Le-Corre, Alstom Transport, Saint-Ouen & C Petet, Sabeta, Paris, France DETECTION OF RAIL SEAT ABRASION IN CONCRETE TIES USING AURORAAUTOMATED INSPECTION TECHNOLOGY, C Villar, Georgetown Rail Equipment Co, Georgetown, TX, USA LIMIT STATES DESIGN & RATING OF CONCRETE SLEEPERS, Dr M H Murray, Queensland Univ of Technology, Brisbane, Australia & J Leong, Docklands Light Rail, London, UK |
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10.30 – 11.00 Coffee – Exhibition Hall | ||||||||||||
| 11.00 - 13.00: Parallel Sessions | ||||||||||||
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13.00 – 14.00 Lunch – Exhibition Hall | ||||||||||||
| 14.00 - 16.00: Parallel Sessions |
| Lecture Room 'A': Hogg Lecture Theatre | Lecture Room 'B': Cayley Lecture Theatre | Lecture Room 'C': Wood Lecture Theatre' | Lecture Room 'D': Class Room G73 |
| Chair: Dr D Plamenac | Chair: Prof Lewis Lesley | Chair: Dr Fiona Thompson | Chair: W Throssel |
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Ballasted Trackbed-2 PREDICTION OF PERMANENT DEFORMATION IN RAILWAY TRACK, X Shi & NH Thom, Univ of Nottingham, UK XiTRACK REINFORCEMENT OF HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY TRACK OVER PEAT FORMATIONS, PK Woodward, XiTRACK, Birch Vale, J Kennedy, G Medero, Heriot-Watt Univ, Edinburgh, Scotland COMPARATISON OF 2 BRAZILIAN RAILWAY TRACKBEDS, CE Lima de Paiva, C de Franco Peixoto, LF de Melo Correia, Univ Estadual de Campinas, PR Aguiar, Erelys Assessoria e Consultoria Ltd, Brazil Ballastless Trackbed-1 TRACK RENEWALS BENEFIT FROM EMBEDDED RAIL SYSTEM, AP de Man, edilon)(sedra bv, Haarlem, The Netherlands SOLVING THE HIGH FREQUENCY VIBRATION ON HIGH SPEED SLAB TRACK, F Aoki, K Inari, Y Iwasa, East Japan Railway Company, Saitama-shi, Japan |
Signalling CARRIER ETHERNET & ITS APPLICATION IN RAILWAY SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, R Gardner, J Dickson, G Smith & G Kilgour, Network Rail, Glasgow, UK. SIGNALLING POWER SUPPLIES DERIVED FROM MV-DC TRACTION NETWORKS, RJ Leach, Parsons Brinckerhoff Rail, UK REDUCING WHOLE LIFE COST BY RE-SIGNALLING WITHOUT INTERRUPTION TO PASSENGER SERVICES - EXPERIENCE ON METRO MADRID, RI Muttram, Bombardier Transportation RCS, Reading, UK USE OF FULL-FIDELITY SIMULATORS FOR TRAINING SIGNALLERS, T Salter, TRE Ltd, Westbury, UK Communications Technology HARNESSING COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE SYSTEMS AVAILABILITY, T Hilleary, Ansaldo STS, USA & I McCullough, Ansaldo STS, London, UK Railway Vehicle Technology & Maintenance-1 OUT-OF-ROUNDNESS OF A METRO VEHICLE BY MEANS OF ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS, A Bracciali, T. De Cicco, F. Piccioli, Univ degli Studi di Firenze, Italy ADVANCED FEM ANALYSIS OF SUPPORT BEAM OF A MODERN TRAM, A. Bracciali, T. De Cicco, F. Piccioli, Univ degli Studi di Firenze, Italy |
Railway Foundations & Drainage GEOTECHNICAL WORKS TO ENABLE TRACK-BED UPGRADE BELOW “CHORLEY FLYING ARCHES”, Dr. EL Chin, Dr. MJ Raybould & IM Shelley, Scott Wilson Ground Engineering, Chesterfield, UK LARGE SCALE TESTS ON A LIGHTWEIGHT COMPOSITE MANHOLE CHAMBER TO BE USED ADJACENT TO RAILWAY LINES, G S Ghataora & Dr M P N Burrow, Univ of Birmingham, UK Earthworks Management KOREAN RAILWAY SLOPE SAFETY MANAGEMENT USING PROBABILITY OF FAILURE BY CHANGING GWL , H K Kim, M H Shin & J S Kwen, KRRI, Gyeongi-do, Korea Tunnels STRUCTURAL FIRE PROTECTION OF RAILWAY TUNNELS, Dr F Tarada, Halcrow, London, UK RAIL TUNNEL SAFETY, Dr A Beard, Heriot-Watt Univ, Edinburgh, UK |
Concrete Bridges U SHAPED VIADUCT CONCEPT FOR METRO OF DUBAI, D Dutoit, Systra, Paris, France 150 KM OF U SHAPE PRESTRESSED CONCRETE DECKS FOR LRT VIADUCTS, Y Gauthier, S Montens, JC Vollery, Systra, Paris, France Masonry Arch Bridges CALDER VIADUCT FRP RE-DECKING, L Canning, N Speight, R Stephens, Y Dobson, Mouchel Ltd, West Byfleet, UK DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR OF RAILWAY BRIDGES, PK Woodward, Heriot-Watt Univ, Yong Lu, L Mao, Univ of Edinburgh, Scotland GPR TESTING OF BRICK MASONRY ARCH BRIDGES, J Cameron, Scott Wilson Scotland, Edinburgh, C Demoulin, Skanska, London, Dr N Diamanti, Aristotle Univ of Thessaloniki, Greece, Dr A Giannopoulos & Prof MC Forde, Univ of Edinburgh, Scotland Railway Engineering-2 APPLICATIONS & TECHNOLOGY OF CHINESE TRACK IRREGULARITY MANAGEMENT, X Tian, G Li, W Wang, D Chen, Ministry of Railways, China DESIGN & MANUFACTURING AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR BALLAST COMPACTION ESTIMATION, Kazem Jadidi & Prof J A Zakeri, Iran Univ of Sci & Tech, Tehran, Iran |
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16.00 – 16.30 Tea – Exhibition Hall |
| 16.30 - 17.30: Parallel Sessions |
| Lecture Room 'A': Hogg Lecture Theatre | Lecture Room 'B': Cayley Lecture Theatre |
| Chair: Dr AP de Man | Chair: Dr A Beard |
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Ballastless Trackbed-2 LATERAL STABILITY OF FASTENER-LESS EMBEDDED RAIL SYSTEMS, R Kelly, P Carels & V Brasseur, CDM-UK, Melton Mowbray, UK STATE-OF-THE-ART REVIEW OF EMBEDDED RAIL SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES, R. Insa. Univ Poli de Madrid, J. González. Técnico Metro de Madrid, J Real, M Bueno & I Reig, Univ Poli de Valencia, Spain DISCRETIZATION METHOD FOR OPTIMAL CHOICE OF TYPES OF SLAB TRACK SYSTEMS, Dr D Plamenac, Advanced School of Civ Eng & Geodesy ,Belgrade, Dr Z Popovic & L Puzavac, Univ of Belgrade, Serbia |
Railway Vehicle Technology & Maintenance-2 FAILURE ANALYSIS & REDESIGN OF A BRAKE CALLIPER SUPPORT, A Bracciali, T De Cicco, F. Piccioli, Univ degli Studi di Firenze, Italy STUDY ON DECISION OF RAIL VEHICLE MAINTENANCE POLICY, M Park, M An & F Schmid, Univ of Birmingham, UK
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17.30 Conference Closes |