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EPFL2012

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Today's airports aren't anymore pure interfaces between ground and air. Since several years they are going through an intense development. Their ground and air accessibility attracts real estate development and (re-) links the region it is implemented in. ...

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A coupled Life Cycle Costing and life cycle assessment has been performed for car-bodies of the Korean Tilting Train eXpress (TTX) project using European and Korean databases, with the objective of assessing environmental and cost performance to aid materi ...

Springer-Verlag2009

Modelling degradation processes of switches & crossings for maintenance & renewal planning on the Swiss railway network

Willem-Jan Zwanenburg

Approximately 25 percent of the budget for the maintenance and renewal of railway tracks –in Switzerland more than a billion Swiss Francs– is used for the switches (points) and crossings (S&C). While in the mean time the budget expenditure for the maintena ...

EPFL2009

A model for the life expectancy of railway switches and crossings for maintenance and renewal planning in asset management systems

Willem-Jan Zwanenburg

With the help of databases of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), statistical analyses are carried out on the lifetime of railway switches (points) and crossings. The expected lifetimes are attributed to different parameters which influence the speed ...

Wit Press, Ashurst Lodge, Southampton So40 7Aa, Ashurst, England2008

Dealing with standardization in liberalized network industries: Some lessons from the European railway sector

Matthias Finger, Marc Laperrouza

The European railway sector is undergoing dramatic changes. During the still ongoing liberalization process most vertically-integrated railway operators have already been “unbundled”. The shift from integrated to disintegrated companies coupled with the in ...

2008

Defining Degradation Processes of Switches Crossings for Maintenance Renewal Planning

Willem-Jan Zwanenburg

Approximately 25 percent of the budget for the maintenance and renewal of railway tracks is used for the switches (points) and crossings (S&C). While in the mean time the budget expenditure for the maintenance and renewal of plain track is optimized with e ...

2008

Reinforced concrete bridges under increased railway traffic loads

Andrin Herwig

The aim of this thesis is to provide rational engineering methods for the fatigue safety examination of existing railway bridges. Increasing railway traffic loading and enhanced structural analysis allow for higher exploitation of the capacity of bridge el ...

EPFL2008

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Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov

Within the EFDA technology program, CRPP designed and prepared a short length of full size Nb3Sn developmental conductor to be tested in the SULTAN test facility. Nb3Sn strand with a higher specification and low Cu:non-Cu ratio was supplied by Outokumpu. H ...

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