Portable Rail Tribometer
Applications
Investigation
Investigate and attribute
Optimisation of friction enhancers
Reduce delays, prevent damage and improve safety
Research
Accelerate innovation in friction management
Optimisation of TOR products
Reduce RCF, wear and noise
Approvals
Aid adoption of novel friction management products
Without friction measurements, friction management is difficult to optimise. Over £60 million is spent on railway friction management in the UK each year. This includes railhead cleaning, friction enhancing products and vegetation management.
Despite these costs and effort, friction is not routinely measured. Unreliable visual inspections are often used and the extent of low adhesion or the effectiveness of new and existing management strategies is not clear.
Our new rail inspection tool improves the measurements, to improve the management.
Magnetic rail clamping
Intuitive operation
Representative contact conditions
Validated results in 60 seconds
For fast and informed decision making
Our Friction Measurement Service
Optimisation of friction management
Low adhesion simulation
Data analysis
Adhesion Research Group Recommendations for Good Practice in Low Adhesion Testing
https://www.raildeliverygroup.com/about-us/publications/13003-managing-low-adhesion-edition-7-0/file.html
https://www.raildeliverygroup.com/media-centre-docman/13005-adhesionmanagement-theapproach-issued-v2-0-final-1/file.html