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First published 2013-7

A reliability analysis of railway switches

Dovile Rama, John D Andrews

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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First published 2002-7

Improvements in railway switches

M. R. Bugarín, J-M García Díaz-de-Villegas

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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First published 2022

Railway track switch simulation: a new dynamic model for studying actuator and switch blade dynamics

Linxiao Li, Saikat Dutta, Roger Dixon [...]

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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First published 2020-8

A new approach to railway track switch actuation: Dynamic simulation and control of a self-adjusting switch

Saikat Dutta, Tim Harrison, Christopher Patrick Ward [...]

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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First published 2023-2

A reliability study of railway switch and crossing components

Jack Litherland, John Andrews

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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First published 2023-3

A Petri net asset management framework for railway switches and crossings

Jack Litherland, John Andrews

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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First published 2026

The influence of trapped foreign objects on railway switch control investigated by numerical simulations and field tests

Sucheth K. K. Bysani, Björn A. Pålsson, Elena Kabo [...]

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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First published 2018-7

Effect of the vertical relative motion of stock/switch rails on wheel–rail contact mechanics in switch panel of railway turnout

Xiaochuan Ma, Ping Wang, Jingmang Xu [...]

Advances in Mechanical Engineering

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First published 2019-11

Investigation of coupled dynamics of a railway tank car and liquid cargo subject to a switch-passing maneuver

Iman H Ashtiani, Subhash Rakheja, Waiz Ahmed

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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First published 2018-5

Improving the reliability and availability of railway track switching by analysing historical failure data and introducing functionally redundant subsystems

Samuel D Bemment, Roger M Goodall, Roger Dixon [...]

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit

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