Rail Infrastructure Resilience

A Best-Practices Handbook

Rui Calcada, Sakdirat Kaewunruen

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780128210420
• eBook ISBN:
  9780128210437
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Economic growth, security and sustainability across Europe are at risk due to ageing railway infrastructure systems. At present, the majority of such systems are aging and some have even reached their initial design lives. These issues align with a major challenge in civil engineering: how to restore and improve urban infrastructure and built environments. Policy, environmental and physical barriers must be addressed and overcome. The complex and interconnected nature of the problem means that there is a need for academia, industry, communities and governments to work collaboratively. The challenges posed by extreme events from natural and man-made disasters are urgent.Rail Infrastructure Resilience: A Best-Practices Handbook presents developed improvement methods for rail infrastructure systems, toward resilience to extreme conditions. It shows how best to use new information in the engineering design, maintenance, construction and renewal of rail infrastructure resilience, through knowledge exchange and capability development. The book presents the outcome of a major European research project, known as the RISEN project. RISEN aimed to enhance knowledge creation and transfer using both international and intersectoral secondment mechanisms among European Advanced Rail Research Universities and SMEs, and Non-EU, leading rail universities, providing methodological approaches and practical tools for restoring and improving railway infrastructure systems for extreme events. Edited and written by members of this project, this book will be essential reading for researchers and practitioners hoping to find practical solutions to the challenges of rail infrastructure resilience. - Offers a best-practices handbook for rail infrastructure resilience from the leaders in the field - Paints a holistic picture of the rail transport system, showing that infrastructure maintenance intervention can be enhanced through advanced monitoring systems and resilience design - Presents rail infrastructure resilience and advanced condition monitoring, allowing a better understanding of the critical maintenance, renewal and retrofit needs of railways - Considers how academia, industry, communities and governments can work collaboratively in order to tackle aggregated problems in rail infrastructure resilience - Presents the findings from the RISEN project, the leading European project on enhancing knowledge creation and transfer of expertise on rail infrastructure resilience

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• About the Editors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• 1: Introduction
• 2: Railway vulnerability and resilience
• 3: Rail resilience to climate change: Embedding climate adaptation within railway operations
• 4: Rail transport resilience to demand shocks and COVID-19
• 5: Management of railway stations exposed to a terrorist threat
• 6: Rail infrastructure systems and hazards
• 7: Wheel-rail dynamic interaction
• 8: Wheel-rail interface under extreme conditions
• 9: Train and track interactions
• 10: Approaches for weigh-in-motion and wheel defect detection of railway vehicles
• 11: Railway ground-borne vibrations: Comprehensive field test development and experimental validation of prediction tools
• 12: Lateral resistance of different sleepers for the resilience of CWR tracks
• 13: Diagnostics and management methods for concrete sleepers
• 14: Railway ballast
• 15: Railway turnouts and inspection technologies
• 16: Risk-based maintenance of turnout systems
• 17: Railway bridge under increased traffic demands
• 18: Structural health monitoring strategy for damage detection in railway bridges using traffic induced dynamic responses
• 19: Improved dynamic resilience of railway bridges using external dampers
• 20: Responses of mast structure and overhead line equipment (OHLE) subjected to extreme events
• 21: Reliability quantification of the overhead line conductor
• Index