Assessment of train running safety on bridges: a literature review

PA Montenegro, H Carvalho, D Ribeiro, R Calçada… - Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Train running safety is a major concern among railway engineers, since a derailment may
cause significant personal and material damages. This problem becomes more important if …

Applications of genetic algorithm and its variants in rail vehicle systems: A bibliometric analysis and comprehensive review

HJ Kaleybar, M Davoodi, M Brenna, D Zaninelli - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Railway systems are time-varying and complex systems with nonlinear behaviors that
require effective optimization techniques to achieve optimal performance. Evolutionary …

[HTML][HTML] Residential load shifting in demand response events for bill reduction using a genetic algorithm

B Mota, P Faria, Z Vale - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Flexible demand management for residential load scheduling, which considers constraints,
such as load operating time window and order between them, is a key aspect in demand …

Automatic clustering-based approach for train wheels condition monitoring

A Mosleh, A Meixedo, D Ribeiro… - … Journal of Rail …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The main goal of this paper is to present an unsupervised methodology to identify railway
wheel flats. This automatic damage identification algorithm is based on the acceleration …

Experimental investigation on vibration behaviour of a CRH train at speed of 350 km/h

W Zhai, P Liu, J Lin, K Wang - International Journal of Rail …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The objective of the article is to investigate the vibration characteristic and the long-term
service performance of a China Railway High-speed (CRH) train at operation speed of 350 …

An approach for wheel flat detection of railway train wheels using envelope spectrum analysis

A Mosleh, P Montenegro, P Alves Costa… - Structure and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Due to the increasing demand for safer and faster rail transport, train wheelsets operating
under high axle loads require more careful and reliable inspections and maintenance …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of the train-track-bridge system characteristics in the runnability of high-speed trains against crosswinds-Part II: Riding comfort

PA Montenegro, D Ribeiro, M Ortega, F Millanes… - Journal of Wind …, 2022 - Elsevier
Passenger riding comfort is a major concern in railways, particularly in high-speed (HS)
networks due its strict requirements. Both the track and vehicle conditions may influence the …

Progressive numerical model validation of a bowstring-arch railway bridge based on a structural health monitoring system

A Meixedo, D Ribeiro, J Santos, R Calçada… - Journal of Civil Structural …, 2021 - Springer
This paper presents a progressive numerical model validation of a bowstring-arch railway
bridge based on the analysis of experimental data from different structural response …

Transition zones to railway bridges: track measurements and numerical modelling

A Paixão, E Fortunato, R Calçada - Engineering structures, 2014 - Elsevier
Railway tracks degrade faster at transition zones to railway bridges. In modern lines,
backfills with bound and unbound granular geomaterials have been used to minimize this …

Long-term deformation of railway tracks considering train-track interaction and non-linear resilient behaviour of aggregates–a 3D FEM implementation

JN Varandas, A Paixão, E Fortunato, BZ Coelho… - Computers and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Railway track designers and maintenance entities have long been pursuing for a robust and
reliable method to predict the track's long-term behaviour. The complexity of this railway …