Derailment

Utilising its cross disciplinary expertise in rollingstock performance, wheel-rail interface track conditions, defect analysis and virtual modelling, the Monash Institute of Railway Technology provides holistic analytical capability for determining contributing factors of derailments. This extends to assessment of changes to operational factors or components to review any change to risk of derailment.

Key areas of expertise involved are:

• Site characteristics and inspection
• Multibody dynamic simulation
• Lateral vertical forces calculation
• Failed component analysis