Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150100814

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150100814

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Mitigating the Severity of Level Crossing Accidents and Derailments. Ongoing increases in the number of level crossings and heavy road vehicles cause more frequent and severe level crossing accidents and derailments. Despite the use of active warning systems, each year, on average, 100 level crossing accidents occur in Australia. With a view to mitigating these crashes, this research aims to formulate theories for reduction in crash energy and effective wheel constraints to prevent derailment by modifying the levels of road and rail crossings and providing guard rails in the recesses of these modified level crossings. The theories are intended be developed using nonlinear dynamic computational methods and laboratory experiments. The outcomes are expected to enable reduction in the severity of level crossing accidents and hence save lives and costs of derailment.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 09-03-2015

End Date: 31-12-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $315,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Civil Engineering | Structural Engineering |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Rail Infrastructure and Networks | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Civil Construction Design

Other Keywords

Civil Construction Design | Civil Engineering | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Rail Infrastructure and Networks | Structural Engineering

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