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WOLAXIM focuses on improving railway axle inspection methods to detect cracks and assess corrosion. The project aims to develop three innovative techniques for more efficient and reliable inspections, reducing maintenance costs and enhancing safety in railway operations.
Axles for railway trains are carefully engineered and high value items that are designed to last 20 years or more.
There is however a current trend for axles to be withdrawn from service before this because of corrosion on the surface long before their design lives.
The decision to withdraw from service is taken without the full knowledge of the way in which the failure will result from corrosion, as this requires a crack to initiate and the mechanism for this is unknown.
Cracks in axles can als…
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United Kingdom, CHESTERFIELD
Type: SME
Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
SME: Yes
Italy, OPERA (MILANO)
Type: Company (for-profit)
Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Germany, BRANDENBURG
Type: SME
Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
SME: Yes
Germany, Munich
Type: Company (for-profit)
Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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