Open access peer-reviewed Edited Volume

Reliability and Safety in Railway

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Xavier Perpiñà
Xavier Perpiñà

Spanish National Research Council,
Spain

Published30 March 2012

Doi10.5772/2660

ISBN978-953-51-0451-3

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-6187-5

Copyright year2012

Number of pages432

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Table of Contents

Open access  chapters

1. Railway Traction

By José A. Lozano, Jesús Félez, Juan de Dios Sanz and José M. Mera

23,110
2
2. Train Braking

By Cătălin Cruceanu

24,627
18
7. Reliability and Lifetime Prediction for IGBT Modules in Railway Traction Chains

By X. Perpiñà, L. Navarro, X. Jordà, M. Vellvehi, Jean-François Serviere and M. Mermet-Guyennet

7,502
16
10. Icing and Anti-Icing of Railway Contact Wires

By Liu Heyun, Gu Xiaosong and Tang Wenbin

8,230
4
11. Multifunction Portals for Train Monitoring: Recent Advances and Innovative Optoelectronic Instrumentation

By Luca Fumagalli, Paolo Tomassini, Marco Zanatta, Giorgio Libretti, Marco Trebeschi, Giovanna Sansoni and Franco Docchio

2,554
2
12. Condition Monitoring of Railway Track Using In-Service Vehicle

By Hitoshi Tsunashima, Yasukuni Naganuma, Akira Matsumoto, Takeshi Mizuma and Hirotaka Mori

5,273
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6,841
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15. New Ultrasonic Techniques for Detecting and Quantifying Railway Wheel-Flats

By Jose Brizuela, Carlos Fritsch and Alberto Ibáñez

3,682
1

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