Improving the performance of railways depends on increasing their efficiency and the speed
of locomotives, which is provided by improving the infrastructure of railways. Therefore, in …

This paper discusses the improvement in rail vehicle braking systems and proposes a new
control algorithm for optimum utilization of the available adhesion between wheel and rail …

Roller rigs are laboratory devices enabling to study various phenomena in the field of
railway vehicles dynamics and the wheel-rail contact. The main benefits of roller rig …

The paper is devoted to the study of lateral oscillation and the assessment of the motion
stability of a four axle railway vehicle equipped with wheelsets with independently rotating …

Featured Application The design of innovative railway running gears providing reduced
wear of wheels and rails. Abstract The paper is created within a project which aims to design …

This chapter describes the use of reduced-scale test benches for simulating different aspects
concerning railway vehicles. Starting from a historical analysis of the development of these …

One of the effective techniques to strengthen the subgrade is boring and mixing technology,
which is based on the immersion of vertical elements–piles into the subgrade. This method …

This article investigates an unconventional approach to solving the control of lateral
displacement for railway bogie wheelsets using recurrent higher order neural units …

The CTU roller rig is 1: 3.5 scaled test rig that serves mainly as a tool for experimental
verification of mathematical simulations and demonstration of the possible benefits of using …

Purpose. Although the advancements in computer simulation technology have paved way to
provide very reliable simulation results, track tests still play an essential role during the …