Dr. Alfredo Núñez Vicencio – Research Projects
Projects
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IAM4RAIL project. Duration: Dec. 2022 – Nov. 2026. Keywords: Railway Infrastructure, Onboard Monitoring, Moving Loads, Track Stiffness, Adhesion Management, Embankment Stability. TUDelft is Affiliated Entity of ProRail in this project. TUDelft project leader: Dr. Alfredo Núñez. Role: Research and coordinate the inputs from TUDelft, WP9 Railway Infrastructure co-leader with Arjen Zoeteman. |
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In2Track3 project. Duration: Jan. 2021 – Jan. 2024. Keywords: Railway Infrastructure, demonstration of monitoring technology, intelligent railways. TUDelft is a third-linked party of ProRail in this project. TUDelft project leader: Dr. Alfredo Núñez. Role: Research and coordinate the inputs from TUDelft, task 3.4 leader about simulations and railway track monitoring. |
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Needs Tailored Interoperable Railway NeTIRail-INFRA (Cordis details), Call H2020-MG-2014 Two Stages, Topic MG-2.1-2014 - I2I Intelligent Infrastructure. Duration: 36 Months, Jun. 2015 - Jun. 2018. Keywords: Rail, track, overhead power supply, smart technology, societal impact, economics, decision support tools. TUDelft participants: Dr. Zili Li and Dr. Alfredo Núñez.
Consortium: The University of Sheffield (Project leader, UK), University of Leeds (UK), International Union of Railways - UIC (France), ADS-Electronics Research
(Romania), Romanian Railway Authority - AFER (Romania), Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg ALU-FR (Germany), IFSTTAR (France), TCDD (Turkey), INTADER (Turkey), VTI (Sweden), SZ-Infrastruktura (Slovenia), RCCF (Romania). Social media and dissemination: |
- ProRail project "Testen in the baan ExploRail". Duration: Dec. 2015 - Dec. 2020. Keywords: hammer test, geometry measurements, ultrasonic and eddy current, sampling of rail tracks, test on the project PRIME test rig, on-train DrTrack measurement. Role: Researcher.
- ProRail project "Risk analysis of Railway Assets, counter of answers for questions from Arcadis and ProRail". Duration: May 2014 - Jun. 2015. Keywords: Rail, track, risk. Role: Researcher.
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Dr. Track, ADMIRE, and PYRAMIDS. Projects in partnership with ProRail, NWO Social Sciences and Technology foundation STW, (see more information at: Explorail), The Netherlands. Duration: Feb. 2013 - Feb. 2016. Role: Researcher, supervisor and support of management activities. Youtube videos: (English)(Dutch). |
Highlighted News
IN2TRACK3: we are very happy to work as third linked party of ProRail in the Shift2Rail project IN2TRACK3. We will be working together with my colleagues from TUDelft Zhen Yang (tribometer), Chen Shen (track stiffness), Jan Moraal (ABA), Jurjen Hendriks (ABA), the professors Zili Li and Rolf Dollevoet, partners from ProRail including Arjen Zoeteman, and partners from Trafikverket in Sweden. Our work will focus on three challenges: 1) demostration of ABA based rail defect detection in a freight dominated line in Sweden (Iron Ore Line), 2) further development of a new tribometer using our V-Track, and 3) development of track stiffness estimation techniques. Information from this project can be found here: IN2TRACK3 and Twitter.
Demostration and final conference H2020 Project NeTIRail: we extended the capabilities of ABA measurement to detect defects under different speeds and monitored a regional railway line with a passenger train that was in operation. We also investigated switches and crossings, rail waves, and corrugation. Other videos in the youtube channel of the project.
News about projects
May 24, 2018, the final conference of the H2020 project NeTIRail-INFRA was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. TUDelft participated mainly in two task: in WP2 with research about short pitch corrugation and in WP4 with research about deployment of ABA measurements using trains in operation. Here the links to the two presentations I did: (WP2 Corrugation), (WP4 ABA in Romania). You can find more videos about the project in the Youtube channel: NeTIRail-INFRA Youtube Channel. Overview of WP4 Monitoring and smart technology can be seen here WP4 NeTIRail-INFRA, and a summary of our tested ABA system in Romania here WP4 ABA.
22 October- 1 November, 2017, we have conducted a succesful measurement campaign for the project NeTIRail-INFRA in the test rig of AFER near Faurei (link AFER). We managed to measure the condition of the rails on board and track side, with speeds up to 220km/h. Here you can find some photos and videos: (photos), (photos), (photos 1), (photos 2), (photos 3), (photos 4), (photos 5), (photos 6), (photos 7), (photos 8), (photos 9), (photos 10), (photos 11), (photos 12), (photos 13), (video 1), (video 2), (video 3), (video 4), (video 5), (video 6), (video 7), (video 8), (video 9).
March 13, 2017, NeTIRail-INFRA project consortium meeting in Leeds-United Kingdom. (link).
November 4, 2016, NeTIRail-INFRA Mid-Term Conference on 4th November 2016 in Brussels, Grand Place (link1), (link2), (link3), (link4), (link5), (link5).
September 28, 2016, Jan Moraal, Jurjen Hendriks, Dirk Doedens and Alfredo Núñez, a team of the Section of Railway Engineering of the TUDelft is travelling to Brasov-Romania, for the first measurement campaign of ABA in that country, in the framework of the NeTIRail-INFRA project.
July 12, 2016, NeTIRail-INFRA project consortium meeting in Istanbul-Turkey. Here some pictures of the meeting: (link1), (link2), (link3).
June 23, 2015, UIC electronic newsletter about NeTIRail-INFRA project: European consortium developing the sustainable and economic railway of the future (link).
January 28, 2015, The H2020 Project "Needs Tailored Interoperable Railway" (NeTIRail-INFRA) has reached the stage of preparation of grant agreement. Call H2020-MG-2014 Two Stages, Topic MG-2.1-2014 - I2I - Intelligent Infrastructure. Duration: Jun. 2015 - Jun. 2018. Consortium: The University of Sheffield (Project leader, UK), University of Leeds (UK), International Union of Railways - UIC (France), ADS-Electronics Research (Romania), Romanian Railway Authority - AFER (Romania), Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg ALU-FR (Germany), IFSTTAR (France), TCDD (Turkey), INTADER (Turkey), VTI (Sweden), SZ-Infrastruktura (Slovenia), RCCF (Romania).