Student Competition

We have a winner!

On behalf of the ASSETS4RAIL Consortium, I am very pleased to inform that Richard Culwick,PhD at the University of Birmingham,
have won the ASSETS4RAIL Student Competition 2020 thanks to the proposal regarding “Workstream 1: Fatigue assessment of steel bridges”.

–Luca Rizzetto, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

A big tank you to the students willing to participate.

Link to presentation with the General rules

Workstream 1

Improving inspection, maintenance and upgrade methods for cost reduction and quality improvement of railway bridges and tunnels, including noise and vibrations
Optimization (costs & technical) of UAV & noise monitoring systems
Presentation of sensor data in BIM
Fatigue assessment of steel bridges
Technical limitations for cleaning of long drainage pipes
Noise dampers

Link to a general overview of the project and it’s Workstreams

Workstream 2

Building a common measuring and monitoring system to elaborate and correlate data from all sources and to obtain a holistic view of systems conditions
Computer vision based wayside train monitoring system
Sensor system for measuring transversal displacement of the wheel on the rail
Monitoring system for switch and crossing
Integration of heterogeneous monitoring systems in the maintenance management

Link to a general overview of the project and it’s Workstreams