| Development and role of structure in railway ballast | 27 May, 2008 |
RRUK Principal Investigator, Professor William Powrie has just been awarded an EPSRC grant to the value of £598,852 to carry out a research project that will look at the development and role of structure in railway ballast.
Railway infrastructure predominantly consists of ballasted track, which has many advantages in terms of cost and ease of maintenance. However despite its widespread use the mechanics of railway ballast are still not fully understood. A... |
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| RRUK Workshop 2008 - Project posters now available online | 13 May, 2008 |
Posters from the 2008 RRUK Workshop in Deby are now available to download. Please CLICK HERE |
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| Presentations from RRUK Workshop now available online | 29 April, 2008 |
Presentations for the RRUK Workshop, held at Derby in April, are now available to download - please CLICK HERE. |
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| MMU Researchers work with Hitachi on safety and efficiency | 03 September, 2007 |
High-tech giant Hitachi has called in MMU engineers to assist in the final preparations of the new fleet of vehicles for London ahead of the 2012 Olympics. Dr Simon Iwnicki and Adam Bevan of the Rail Technology Unit in the Department of Engineering and Technology have used computer techniques developed at MMU to predict wheel wear, taking into account track design, track irregularity, traction forces, wheel-rail friction and speed. For PDF press release please click HERE. |
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| Invited state-of-the-art lectures given by RRUK people at the Vehicle Dynamics conference | 03 September, 2007 |
The International Association of Vehicle System Dynamics (IAVSD) organises a biennial symposium at which a series of invited lectures are used to set the scene. This is the premier international event in the field, and at the most recent symposium (held this year in Berkely, California) two of the five of its state-of-the-art lectures were given by RRUK people:
"Control and Monitoring for Railway Vehicle Dynamics", presented by Prof Roger Goodall, Loughborough University (presented jointly with Dr TX Mei, University of Leeds, and co-authored with Prof Stefano Bruni... |
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