MONITORAIL

Long range inspection and condition monitoring of rails using guided waves

Coordinatore	TWI LIMITED    more  Organization address address: Granta Park, Great Abington city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB21 6AL contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Kerry Cognome: Peddar Email: send email Telefono: +44 1223 899 000 Fax: +44 1223 890 952
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	1˙500˙000 €
EC contributo	1˙177˙000 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2010-1
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-02-01   -   2013-01-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	TWI LIMITED  Organization address address: Granta Park, Great Abington city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB21 6AL contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Kerry Cognome: Peddar Email: send email Telefono: +44 1223 899 000 Fax: +44 1223 890 952	UK (CAMBRIDGE)	coordinator	61˙000.00
2	VERMON SA  Organization address address: RUE DU GENERAL RENAULT 180 city: TOURS CEDEX 1 postcode: 37038 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: An Cognome: Nguyen-Dinh Email: send email Telefono: +33 247374278 Fax: +33 247381545	FR (TOURS CEDEX 1)	participant	271˙737.50
3	Aerosoft S.p.A.  Organization address address: Centro Direzionale Napoli Isola E7 city: Napoli postcode: 80143 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Ugo Cognome: Savarese Email: send email Telefono: +39 081 212 89 75 Fax: +39 081 212 89 76	IT (Napoli)	participant	271˙307.50
4	Jackweld Limited  Organization address address: FORGE DRIVE 20 city: ESHER postcode: KT10 0HR contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Stuart Cognome: Jackman Email: send email Telefono: +44 7824 836 590 Fax: +44 7824 836 590	UK (ESHER)	participant	241˙390.00
5	OPENPATTERN  Organization address address: RUE DES COTES 109/111 city: MAISONS LAFFITTE postcode: 78600 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Etienne Cognome: Flesch Email: send email Telefono: +33 1 34 93 34 93 Fax: +33 1 34 93 34 94	FR (MAISONS LAFFITTE)	participant	229˙065.00
6	BRUNEL UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: Kingston Lane city: UXBRIDGE postcode: UB83PH contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Deana Cognome: Thomas Email: send email Telefono: 441895000000 Fax: 441895000000	UK (UXBRIDGE)	participant	40˙000.00
7	ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS  Organization address address: CHARILAOU THERMI ROAD 6 KM city: THERMI THESSALONIKI postcode: 57001 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Elias Cognome: Houstis Email: send email Telefono: +30 24210 96740 Fax: +30 24210 96750	EL (THERMI THESSALONIKI)	participant	40˙000.00
8	NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED  Organization address address: 1 EVERSHOLT STREET city: LONDON postcode: NW1 2DN contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Brian Cognome: Whitney Email: send email Telefono: +44 207 557 9283 Fax: +44 207 5579131	UK (LONDON)	participant	22˙500.00
9	INSPEQ LIMITED  Organization address address: KANINGOS 4 city: STROVOLOS postcode: 2028 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Artemios Cognome: Vamvakoussis Email: send email Telefono: +30 210 9882600 Fax: +357 99882867	CY (STROVOLOS)	participant	0.00
10	KENTRO EREVNAS TECHNOLOGIAS KAI ANAPTYXIS THESSALIAS  Organization address address: TECHNOLOGIKO PARKO A VIPE city: VOLOS postcode: 38500 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Elias Cognome: Houstis Email: send email Telefono: +30 24210 96740 Fax: +30 24210 96750	EL (VOLOS)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The objective of MONITORAIL is to develop a cost effective long range ultrasonic inspection and also a wireless condition monitoring system in order to improve and better maintain the European railway system for better efficiency and safety. This will be carried out through the development of the Long Range Ultrasonic technology which has a certain number of advantages: sufficient inspection time, cost compared to the conventional ultrasonic testing, 100% inspection coverage (rail’s head, web and the foot). This project will develop a guided wave LRUT system not only for rail inspection but also for real time monitoring of the rail and to create an intelligent railway infrastructure. Flexible sensors will be embedded in the railways and a collection data system will be developed and integrated on the existent systems. This will also extend the life of the materials through early repair of rail tracks. The rail track is a natural wave guide where waves could easily propagate for long distance and detect defects in different area such as the web the head and the foot. Moreover long lengths of rail track could be detected at once making this a cost efficient technique for continuous monitoring. The system will offers 100% coverage up to 50m from one single location. Multiple sensors will be used to cover long distance inspection. Significant technical issues need to be addressed and solved before this technology can be considered a viable and industrial solution. The prototype demonstrations to date have shown promising results but have been limited to static testing. Any loss of signal or momentary surface interference results in a signal that is similar to that of a defect, thus the potential of false positive indications is high, which could severely impact the efficiency of overall inspection. Furthermore the potential of permanently mounted sensors will be investigated for critical areas of the rail network.'