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MMS180 Railway technology lp2 HT21 (7.5 hp). Course is offered by the department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences

Course content and administrative info is available in the Course PM (note that this is a draft version).
Course literature (except for the text book) and other supporting material will be available in the Files section in the folder Course literature.
Assignments (four in total) will be available in the Files section in the folder Course literature.
Lecture notes, slides etc will be uploaded to the n the Files section in the Supporting materials folder.

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Course content

The course is divided into four parts, with content, and supporting literature as follows:

  • The societal role of the railway
    This includes perspectives on market, system, economics and environment
  • Overview of railway systems
    This part relates to both track and vehicles and deals with both current and future (potential) systems.
  • Operational loads and related deterioration phenomena
    Provides an overview of operational loads on railways, and the relations to design and maintenance status. Introduces railway dynamics and discusses mechanisms, consequences and possibilities for prediction of loading and subsequent deterioration/safety risks of different parts of the railway system with focus to loads generated in the wheel–rail interface.
  • Asset management from a railway perspective
    Provides an overview of the ISO 55000 standard for asset management with focus on how to manage railway assets subjected to mechanical deterioration. This involves discussions on different modes of deterioration and risk analyses.

Course literature

  • Evert Andersson, Mats Berg, Sebastian Stichel & Carlos Casanueva (2018) Rail systems and rail vehicles Part 1: Rail systems, KTH, Sweden.
  • Evert Andersson, Mats Berg, Sebastian Stichel & Carlos Casanueva (2018) Rail systems and rail vehicles Part 2: Rail vehicles, KTH, Sweden.
  • Anders Ekberg & Björn Pålsson (2021) Selected topics in railway mechanics with focus on deterioration Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (available for download)
  • Anders Ekberg & Elena Kabo (2021) Key parameters and requirements for track health prediction, Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (available for download)
  • Anders Ekberg (2021) Asset management – A brief introduction with focus on the ISO 55000 standard and mechanical deterioration of railway related assets, Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (available for download)

Some links to movies shown at the lectures

 

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