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Initial Acoustic Emission field trials conducted at EMEF test track

14 July , 2009 On the 18th-20th June initial, Acoustic Emission (AE) field trials were successfully conducted at EMEF, Porto, Portugal. UoB, ENVAC, Feldman and ISQ visited EMEF's test track to utilise an available a locomotive. To ensure defects were present, wheel flats were introduced into the locomotive wheels by emergency breaking. AE instrumentation was setup by the track and data collected according to an agreed test protocol. The data is currently being analyzed but first impressions appear to show very promising results.

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Vlaamse Vervoermaatschappij De Lijn (Belgium) University of Birmingham (UK) Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade (Portugal) TWI Ltd (UK) SNCF (France) Feldman Enterprises LTD (Cyprus) TSC (UK) Envirocoustics S. A. (Greece) EMEF (Portugal) Alfa Products & Technologies (Belgium)Alfa Products & Technologies (Belgium) VTG Rail UK Ltd (UK)
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SAFERAIL is a collaboration between the following organisations: Alfa Products & Technologies, EMEF SA, Envirocoustics A.B.E.E., Feldman Enterprises LTD, Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade, Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF), Technical Software Consultants Ltd, TWI Ltd, University of Birmingham, Vlaamse Vervoermaatschappij De Lijn, VTG Rail UK Ltd. The project is co-ordinated and managed by TWI Ltd and is partly funded by the EC under the COLLABORATIVE Project ref: SCP7-GA-2008-218674.