TC24 MEETING

REGISTRATION
VENUE
The attendance to the meeting is free of
charge, but subjected to registration by
sending an e-mail to:
The meeting will be held in room “Sala Consiglio” located in building B23 of:
[email protected]
Coffee breaks during both sessions, welcome drinks and a quick lunch on 2nd October will be supported by ESIS:
www.structuralintegrity.eu
Politecnico di Milano
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Via La Masa 1
20156 Milano, Italy
EUROPEAN STRUCTURAL
INTEGRITY SOCIETY
Technical Committee 24
“Integrity of railway
structures”
Full details on directions and accommodation
can be found at:
http://esistc24.mecc.polimi.it/
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
TC24 MEETING
Prof. Stefano Beretta
Dept. Mechanical Engineering - Politecnico
di Milano
Tel.: +39-02-23998246
[email protected]
Advances in:
“Axle Durability
Analysis and
Maintenance”
Dr. Michele Carboni
Dept. Mechanical Engineering - Politecnico
di Milano
Tel.: +39-02-23998253
[email protected]
Politecnico di Milano
“The aim of ESIS TC24 is to provide a forum for research workers who deal with
structural integrity problems in modern railway system.”
1-2 October 2014
www.mecc.polimi.it
ESIS TC24
PROGRAM
ESIS is the European Structural Integrity Society (www.structuralintegrity.eu).
1st October, h. 14.00
2nd October, h. 8.45
Session 1 - Fatigue Design, Life and reliability calculations
Session 2 - Maintenance, service and
inspections
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Analysis of local stress concentration at
transitions (A. Landaberea, CAF, Spain)
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Acceptance of defects at press-fits (S.
Foletti, PoliMi, Italy)
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Advances on fatigue reliability calculations (M.L. Nguyen, SNCF, France)
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Fatigue properties of railway axles: small
scale tests and damage calculations (M.
Filippini & M. Luke, PoliMi and IWM)
Experimental evaluation of wheelset
axles residual life time on a full-scale
wheel-rail roller test (K. Madler, DB,
Germany)
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Fatigue properties of railway axles: new
results on full-scale specimens (S. Cervello, LucchiniRS, Italy)
New axle coatings and axle preparation
(T. Gerlach, GHH-Radsatz, Germany)
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Summary of full-scale strength distributions and probabilistic damage calculations (S. Beretta, PoliMi, Italy)
Potential improvements of the presently
applied in-service inspection of wheelset axles (W. Kappes, IZFP, Germany)
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Evaluation of the effect of axle protection against ballast impacts (M. Carboni,
PoliMi, Italy)
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Survey of maintenance practices and
costs (A. Landaberea, CAF, Spain)
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Improved POD for automatic axle
boreprobe (S. Cantini, LucchiniRS, Italy)
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A holistic view on NDT reliability: multiparameter-POD and Human Factor influences within the modular reliability
approach (C. Muller, BAM, Germany)
More details about the meeting can be
found at http://esistc24.mecc.polimi.it,
where presentations will be available after
the meeting.
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EIBFW-III - Description and aims of the
new project (H. P. Ganser, MCL Leoben, Austria)
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Closure
A Special Issue containing the more relevant presentations will appear onto Int.
J. Fatigue.
Estimated closing time: 13.15
TC24 was established within ESIS in 2004
under the chair of Prof. Schwalbe, after an
initial series of successful meetings. From
2006 to 2010, the chairmen were then Prof.
R. Smith and Prof. U. Zerbst. Since 2010,
the chairmen are Prof. S. Beretta and Prof.
R. Smith.
The material presented during the last TC24
meetings, is available at:
http://esistc24.mecc.polimi.it/
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MOTIVATION
The opportunity of the meeting is offered by
the results obtained in the frame of European
projects (EURAXLES, SUSTRAIL) and other
projects on novel concepts for fatigue design
and durability of railway axles, which can represent a significant advance and challenge to
current practices. Moreover, new interesting
outcomes about maintenance and inspections will be presented.
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Initiation of fretting fatigue in press fits
(IWM, Germany)
Dynamic torsional loads on wheelsets Recent findings for the assessment (M.
Traupe, DB, Germany)
Panel discussion on potential improvements for design procedures
Estimated closing time: 18.00