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New high-performant and long-lasting ballast for sustainable railway infrastructures (NEOBALLAST)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

NEOBALLAST is an innovative high-performance, long-lasting and eco-friendly ballast aggregate solution designed to overcome the two most important shortcomings of railway tracks: track degradation and noise and vibration emissions, whilst improving safety and customer service. The implementation of NEOBALLAST will improve the economic and environmental performance of European railway tracks, bring ...
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Demonstration of methods and tools for the optimisation of operational reliability of large-scale industrial wind turbines (OPTIMUS)

Start date: Aug 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

The power output from wind turbines has increased dramatically over the past thirty years from 50 kW to 6 MW, while 8-12 MW turbines are in the stage of design. State-of-the-art condition monitoring systems, such as vibration-based systems and temperature sensors, are able to monitor and evaluate the current condition of components of interest. Nonetheless, varying wind loads can result in the gen ...
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Quiet Tracks for Sustainable Railway Infrastructures (QUIET-TRACK)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

The objective is to provide step changing track based noise mitigation systems and maintenance schemes, to provide reliable improved TSI based rolling noise calculation procedures with harmonized monitoring of the required input parameters and to provide track noise management tools, for use in noise mapping and hot spot action plans according to the END, for use as engineering tools and solutions ...
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Rail inspection by Flexible Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer (RIFLEX)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

"Railway maintenance is a costly activity that can be improved by faster inspection of assets. If the speed of inspection of the railhead can be increased the potential cost savings are significant. Current NDT solutions implement hand held devices that effectively scan at walking pace. EMAT devices have been utilised to demonstrate that a non-contact solution that can be mounted to a vehicle is f ...
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INTEROPERABLE MONITORING, DIAGNOSIS AND MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES FOR AXLE BEARINGS (MAXBE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The axle bearing damage process has safety and economic implications on the exploitation of railways systems, as proved by the selection of this topic for inclusion in the present call for research proposals of the FP7 of the EU. Axle bearing damage has been the object of intense attention by railway operators and transportation authorities, leading to a variety of approaches and systems currently ...
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Virtual certification of acoustic performance for freight and passenger trains (ACOUTRAIN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

ACOUTRAIN will simplify and improve the acoustic certification process of new rolling stock, in particular relating to the TSI Noise. Today the need of conformity assessment for a new vehicle according to the TSI Noise represents a significant element of both cost and time to market due to the need to carry out expensive and time consuming tests. The goal of the proposed project is to speed up the ...
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Railway Induced Vibration Abatement Solutions (RIVAS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"Ground vibration, effected by rail services, is an important environmental concern, affecting European citizens nearby any rail infrastructure. Surveys show that many Europeans are subjected to annoying levels of feelable vibration and vibration-induced noise. Although solutions are available for track in tunnels, tracks at grade are a much more extensive problem even for vibration-induced noise. ...
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Acoustically Green Road Vehicles and City Areas (CITYHUSH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"The CITYHUSH project will support city administrations in the production and implementation of noise action plans according to the directive EC 2002/49.The identified hot spots and noise acting plans made with the existing technology suffer from major shortcomings:1. poor correlation between hot spots with annoyance and complaints;2. most measures lead to increased emissions;3. only indoor noise ...
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An Intelligent On-line High-Speed Rail Condition Monitoring System Deployed Via Passenger and Freight Trains (I-RAIL)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"Greener and more comfortable trains making rail transport a more attractive option for passengers in comparison to other means of transportation. The ever growing need for the society to employ more environmentally friendly transportation policies is expected to further underline the economic and societal role of rail transport in achieving sustainable mobility across Europe in the years to follo ...
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Predictive Maintenance employing Non-intrusive Inspection & Data Analysis (PMnIDEA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2012,

The environmental, societal, and economic drivers of an efficient urban transport system are well acknowledged and are reflected in the local transport plans of all major urban areas. The overall concept of the project is to facilitate the achievement of this goal by generating solutions to currently identified barriers that form the project imperatives, which have been established through close c ...
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