Rail Infrastructure Group
The Rail Infrastructure Group has been involved in leading EU and worldwide railway research for over ten years.
Projects include:
- INNOTRACK
- RAILECT
- Comparison of the Hatfield and alternative UK Rails
- Modelling the interaction of railway contact fatigue and wear
- RRUK - Rail Research UK
- SUSTRAIL
Rail InfrastructureSoftware
The Rail Infrastructure Group has developed computer programs Dynarat and DynaCrack which are used for simulating wear and crack initiation:
Testing Facilities
A section of track is available at our full-scale test site at Barrow Hill in the UK for instrumenting and experimenting. Additional testing facilities are available for wear, fatigue and chemical and bio-chemical analysis of low adhesion leaf films.
Further details from f.j.franklin@ncl.ac.uk
