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Brakes are indispensable and safety-critical systems for all types of railway trains including passenger (high-speed, metro, tram, etc.) and freight trains (heavy-haul, intermodal, etc.). Safe and efficient railway operations require a good understanding of brakes from various parties including drivers, maintenance crews, manufacturers, and design engineers. Brake research helps to expand and deepen the knowledge about railway train brakes.

Driven by the rapid development of Intelligent Transport Systems and the ever-increasing demands for faster and heavier trains, as well as energy savings and sustainability, railway brake research has seen a new wave of interests from the industry and academia. Under these situations, we propose an International Workshop on Railway Brake Research to boost brake research. The International Workshop on Railway Brake Research will be virtually hosted by CRE of Central Queensland University (Australia) and DIEF of University of Florence (Italy) from 19-20 September 2023. This virtual conference will bring together the latest research to achieve a better understanding of the behaviour and mechanisms of railway brake systems and associated phenomena.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Passenger and freight train brake systems Innovative brake system designs
Experimental study and field testing of train brake systems Fluid dynamics in brake systems
Real-time brake models including empirical models
Numerical methods for brake modelling
Parameterisation of brake systems
Friction and adhesion in brake systems
Condition monitoring for brake systems
Stochastic features in brake systems
Adaptive brake modelling for automated train driving

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CRE

The Centre for Railway Engineering (CRE) is an industry focused research centre hosted by CQUniversity and located in Rockhampton. CRE is a well-established research organisation that boasts extensive expertise and impressive research infrastructure.

Over the past 30 years the Centre has made a major contribution to Australia’s rail industry by initiating, supporting and championing research efforts that have involved and benefited industry organisations and professionals. Through its research objectives and close collaboration with industry, CRE has become internationally recognised as a leader in the provision of applied engineering research for rail operators and manufacturers. Specifically, the Centre is a world leader when it comes to rollingstock (including brake systems) and multi-body dynamics, condition monitoring and non-linear modelling.

The Centre has provided commercial research and consulting services to both national and international rail organisations including AECOM, Aurizon, Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC), BHP, Arc Infrastructure, Bradken, Bowen Rail Company, Calibre Global, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India, Deloitte India, Fortescue Metals Group, Pacific National, Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board (RISSB), Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO - Indian Railways), Qube, Rio Tinto, the Qld Government and Vline. The Centre is also engaged in product development for the Australian rail manufacturing sector and has established a record of original patented research in relation to this. The CRE works with industry partners either in direct collaboration or as one partner in a collaborative team.

DIEF

The University of Florence (UNIFI) was Founded in 1321 (one of the 20 oldest in the World), supported by the Medici family and was originally called “Studium Generale”. Giovanni Boccaccio (author of “The Decameron”) is one of the first professors, teaching the “Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri.

Nowadays, UNIFI is a modern university covering almost all the main study areas with 1.665 professors and researchers, 1.600 technicians and administrative personnel, more than 1.600 PhD students and research fellows, 50.000 students, more than 9000 graduated students per year, and ≈ 320 scientific partnerships with foreign universities.

The Department of Industrial Engineering Florence (DIEF) is one of the largest Departments in the University in terms of personnel, research activities and funding. Created in 2014 after the global reform of Italian University as the fusion of the former Depts. of Energy Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. The current Head of Department is prof. Bruno Facchini.

The DIEF personnel (at the end of 2020) includes 16 Full Professors, 31 Associate Professors, 64 Postdocs,85 PhD Students, 28 more research staff, and 26 technicians. The number of students of DIEF is in the range of about 1700 people.

DIEF is very active both in Industrial Research funded by private companies and Basic Research funded by public institutions The annual research budget of DIEF is in the range of 8-10 Million Euro which corresponds to a rate of about 215,000 Euro for each permanent staff unit each year This figure of merit places DIEF at the top ranking of European Engineering Departments.

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