Publications related to Railway track

Smart filter aided domain adversarial neural network for fault diagnosis in noisy industrial scenarios

Olga Fink, Gaëtan Michel Frusque, Tianfu Li, Qi Li, Baorui Dai

The application of unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA)-based fault diagnosis methods has shown significant efficacy in industrial settings, facilitating the transfer of operational experience and fault signatures between different operating conditions, di ...

2023

Experiments and proposed model for residual stresses in hot-rolled wide flange shapes

Dimitrios Lignos, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Andronikos Skiadopoulos

This paper proposes a new residual stress model for hot-rolled wide flange steel cross sections. For this purpose, a dataset of 85 residual stress measurements is first assembled. The dataset is comprised of prior measurements available in the literature t ...

2023

First developments towards producing inductive magnetic sensors using state-of-the-art photolithography techniques

Duccio Testa, Marcus Cemes, Ambrine Douhane

Inductive magnetic sensors are needed for tokamak operation to provide the low-frequency (LF) measurements leading to the equilibrium reconstruction and to monitor the higher frequency (HF) instabilities; the HF magnetic sensors are often also used as a ba ...

2023

Learnable Wavelet Transform and Domain Adversarial Learning for Enhanced Bearing Fault Diagnosis

Olga Fink, Gaëtan Michel Frusque, Qi Li, Baorui Dai

The application of unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA)-based fault diagnosis methods has shown significant efficacy in industrial settings, facilitating the transfer of operational experience and fault signatures between different operating conditions, di ...

Research Publishing2023

Short Span UHPFRC Railway Bridge in Switzerland - From Design to Implementation

Eugen Brühwiler, Numa Joy Bertola, Ngoc Thanh Trinh, Enrique García

This paper presents the design and construction of the Aiguillon railway bridge in Switzerland, one of the first railway bridges completely made of Ultra-High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Composite (UHPFRC). The length and width of the trough ...

IABSE2022

Contrastive Feature Learning for Railway Infrastructure Fault Diagnostic

Olga Fink

To operate the railway system safely and efficiently, a multitude of assets need to me monitored. Railway sleepers are one of these infrastructure assets, that are safety critical. To automate the monitoring process, data-driven fault diagnostics models ha ...

Research Publishing2022

Increasing Cellular Network Energy Efficiency for Railway Corridors

Andreas Peter Burg, Ruben Merz, Adrian Schumacher

Modern trains act as Faraday cages making it challenging to provide high cellular data capacities to passengers. A solution is the deployment of linear cells along railway tracks, forming a cellular corridor. To provide a sufficiently high data capacity, m ...

IEEE2022

Pitfalls in the spectral measurements of polarization-altering metasurfaces

Olivier Martin, Hsiang-Chu Wang

The optical characterization of metasurfaces and nanostructures that alter the polarization of light is tricky and can lead to unphysical results, such as reflectance beyond unity. We track the origin of such pitfalls to the response of some typical optica ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

Multi-material rail pad and method for manufacturing same

Véronique Michaud, John Christopher Plummer, Holger Frauenrath, Joël Cugnoni, Oguzhan Oguz, Adrien Julien Demongeot

The invention relates to a rail pad (10, lOa-v, 10α-η) comprising: a) a pad matrix (1) comprising a first material and b) at least one damping element (2) at least partially encapsulated or embedded in the pad matrix (1), said damping element (2) comprisin ...

2022

Renewal of a fixed railway track using UHPFRC - first use worldwide of UHPFRC in rail track construction, part 1

Eugen Brühwiler, Antonina Hochuli

This two-part article reports on the renewal and adaptation of the fixed railway track in the heavily frequented underground train station at Zurich Airport. The fixed track built in 1980 had reached the service duration predicted by the system provider an ...

2021

Enhancement of riveted steel bridges by adding a trough in UHPFRC acting in composite action

Eugen Brühwiler

Riveted railway bridges are commonly considered as being “old”, having fatigue damage and are therefore replaced. While this practice should be by now obsolete by using novel engineering methods like structural monitoring, prolongation of the service durat ...

Taylor & Francis2021

Improving Railway Track Coverage with mmWave Bridges: A Measurement Campaign

Andreas Peter Burg, Ruben Merz, Adrian Schumacher

Bringing cellular capacity into modern trains is challenging because they act as Faraday cages. Building a radio frequency (RF) corridor along the railway tracks ensures a high signal-to-noise ratio and limits handovers. However, building such RF corridors ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

AIM 2020: Scene Relighting and Illumination Estimation Challenge

Sabine Süsstrunk, Majed El Helou, Ruofan Zhou, Matthew Brown, Xin Huang, Radu Timofte, Tongtong Zhao, Shanshan Zhao, Yu Zhu, Yuzhong Liu

We review the AIM 2020 challenge on virtual image relighting and illumination estimation. This paper presents the novel VIDIT dataset used in the challenge and the different proposed solutions and final evaluation results over the 3 challenge tracks. The f ...

2020

Mask to identify polluted periods during the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition

Julia Schmale, Andrea Baccarini

Aerosol and trace gas measurements are strongly affected by the ship exhaust and other human activities (e.g., helicopter flights). Therefore, it is important to discriminate between clean and polluted periods. This mask provides an indication of clean per ...

2020

Model-based economic analysis of electrification in railway - Understanding the impact of track, operations, and uncertainties

Michel Bierlaire, Nikola Obrenovic, Florian Mueller

This paper presents results on the impact of different tracks on the economic viability of track electrification for regional railway. Since regional railway still heavily relies on pollutive diesel propulsion systems, track electrification can be key to r ...

2019

Fatigue safety verification of a steel railway bridge using short term monitoring data

Eugen Brühwiler, Bartlomiej Wojciech Sawicki, Mariia Nesterova

The case study of the fatigue safety examination of the 120 years old steel riveted bridge carrying a single railway track on two main girders is presented. The overall assessment according to the Swiss Standard SIA 269 for existing structures indicated su ...

CRC PRESS-TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP2019

The Sixth Visual Object Tracking VOT2018 Challenge Results

Erhan Gündogdu, Tianzong Zhang, Wei Wu, Qiang Wang, Zhiye Wang, Li Wang, Bo Li, Yunpeng Li, Zeyu Zhang, Bo Chen, Jiri Matas, Namhoon Lee, Tianyang Xu, Jing Li, Ning Wang, Hongwei Li, Feng Li, Jue Wang, Peixia Li, Ran Tao, Yi Wu, Yunhua Zhang, Yuxuan Sun, Qing Guo, Xiaofan Zhang, Wenjun Zeng, Luca Bertinetto, Siwen Wang, Chong Sun, Litu Rout

The Visual Object Tracking challenge VOT2018 is the sixth annual tracker benchmarking activity organized by the VOT initiative. Results of over eighty trackers are presented; many are state-of-the-art trackers published at major computer vision conferences ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Fatigue Strength Upgrading of Cover Plate Ends by Welded Extensions in Existing Steel Bridge Girders

Alain Nussbaumer, Dimitrios Lignos, Vasileios Grigoriou

This paper investigates the fatigue upgrading of typical cover plate joint connections in existing steel bridge girders through cover plate extension. The upgraded detail is created by removing the existing transverse end weld, then welding the extension t ...

2018

Integrated maintenance model for heavy haul tracks

José João Pires De Oliveira Filho

Due to the accumulation of traffic, the railway components are affected by the induced stresses. As a result, the geometry of the railways is degraded over time. The degradation occurs either through the partial loss of the track's geometry or through the ...

EPFL2016

New parametric equations to estimate notch stress concentration factors at butt welded joints modeling the weld profile with splines

Anton Schleiss, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Alexandre Jean Pachoud

For fatigue life estimation as well as for fatigue testing analysis of welded structures by local stresses approaches, the stress concentration factor (SCF) at the weld must be known. Full penetration butt welded joints are extensively used in steel struct ...

Elsevier2016