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Railway Superstructure Maintenance

Industry-Specific
Digital Skills

Engineering, Construction, and Infrastructure

Duration

40 hours

PRESENTATION

The Railway Superstructure Maintenance course offers you the opportunity to dive into a sector experiencing unprecedented growth and demand. With the global expansion of rail networks and the increasing emphasis on sustainability, maintaining railway infrastructure has become crucial. This course equips you with essential skills in maintenance models, operation plans, and track quality evaluation, ensuring you are at the forefront of the industry. You’ll gain insights into track components and welding control, enabling you to oversee and implement efficient maintenance strategies. By joining this course, you position yourself as a vital asset in an industry that is not just evolving but is essential to modern transportation. Embrace the chance to enhance your expertise and meet the rising demand for skilled professionals in railway superstructure maintenance.

Objectives

– Understand maintenance models and apply them effectively.

– Identify and evaluate track components accurately.

– Implement welding control and supervision techniques.

– Analyse track quality using evaluation methods.

– Develop maintenance plans for railway superstructures.

– Optimise operation and exploitation strategies.

– Assess the efficiency of track components regularly.

Syllabus

UNIT 1. MAINTENANCE MODELS AND PLANS OPERATION AND EXPLOITATION Historical evolution of maintenance Track maintenance programming Operations constituting the conservation of the track Typology of partially mechanized track maintenance work Type of fully mechanized track maintenance work UNIT 2. TRACK COMPONENTS Introduction to the maintenance of track components The ballast, the sleepers, the fastening systems and the rail Maintenance of track components (switches and crossings) Slab track Latest trends in superstructure maintenance UNIT 3. WELDING CONTROL AND SUPERVISION Flash-butt electric welding for rails Aluminothermic rail welding Inspections of aluminothermic weldings Ultrasonic detection of rails and welding effects Type of fully mechanized track maintenance work UNIT 4. TRACK QUALITY EVALUATION Concept of track quality and quality quantification Geometric and dynamic track auscultation Analysis of geometric auscultation results: safety and comfort Analysis of geometric auscultation results: rolling surface condition – wave wear Analysis of the geometric auscultation results: rolling surface condition – vertical, lateral and total wear; average track gauge definition
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