A risk‑based approach to automatic brake tests for rail freight service: incident analysis and realisation concept
- This study reviews the practice of brake tests in freight railways, which is time consuming and not suitable to detect certain failure types. Public incident reports are analysed to derive a reasonable brake test hardware and communication architecture, which aims to provide automatic brake tests at lower cost than current solutions. The proposed solutions relies exclusively on brake pipe and brake cylinder pressure sensors, a brake release position switch as well as radio communication via standard protocols. The approach is embedded in the Wagon 4.0 concept, which is a holistic approach to a smart freight wagon. The reduction of manual processes yields a strong incentive due to high savings in manual labour and increased productivity.
| Author: | Raphael PfaffORCiD, Manfred Enning, Stefan Sutter |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-022-05007-x |
| ISSN: | 2523-3971 |
| Parent Title (English): | SN Applied Sciences |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Place of publication: | Cham |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2022 |
| Date of the Publication (Server): | 2022/03/29 |
| Tag: | Brake set-up; Brake test; Freight rail; Incident analysis; Train composition |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 14 |
| Note: | Corresponding author: Raphael Pfaff |
| Link: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-022-05007-x |
| Zugriffsart: | weltweit |
| Institutes: | FH Aachen / ECSM European Center for Sustainable Mobility |
| FH Aachen / Fachbereich Maschinenbau und Mechatronik | |
| open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
| collections: | Verlag / Springer |
| Open Access / Gold | |
| Geförderte OA-Publikationen / DEAL Springer | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung |
