Agenda
Wednesday – December 9th, 2020
Presentations available to watch on-demand from December 7th
08:00 am - 09:40 am
Online Networking
09:40AM
Stick-Slip phenomenon in bogie mounted friction wedge
S Habib Rahmathulla, Managing Director, Indian Friction Material Eng (FRICMART)
10:10AM
Railroad air brake test
Dominik Browne, Former Dir. Training, Norfolk Southern and Consultant, Heartwood
10:40AM - 12:00
Q & A with all speakers and online networking
12:00PM
Impact of winter weather conditions on brake systems and ways of overcoming the challenges
Denis Emorine, Senior Expert Brake System, Alstom
12:30PM
Experimental studies of the causes of disc brake “creaking”
Yury Krivosheya, Associate Professor, Donetsk Railway Transport
13:00PM
Velim circuit sliding problems
Guido Tarquini, Brake System Senior Engineer, Hitachi
13:30PM
Optimisation of the wheel/rail interface using Top of Rail Friction Modifiers
Jackie Butterfield, Lead Applications Engineer, L.B Foster Rail Technologies
14:00PM
The importance of tribochemistry in making organic formulations greener
Carlos Lorenzana, Technical Director, RIMSA
14:30PM
Friction additives – solutions for various types of friction railway brakes
Dr Lars Hensgen, Head of R&D, Tribotecc
15:00PM
Using simulation to improve operational uncertainty
Stuart Brown, Principal Electrical Engineer, DB ESG
15:30PM
Braking curves for autonomous shunting and implications for a sensor system
Raphael Pfaff, Professor of Rail Vehicle Engineering, FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences