NEWS:

Posted: 2012-03-30
Hamed Ronasi defended his PhD-thesis "Inverse identification on dynamic wheel-rail contact forces" March 29, 2012.
Faculty appointed opponent was Prof Tadeusz Uhl, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Polen.
The thesis can be obtained from the Department of Applied Mechanics.

Posted: 2012-02-27
CHARMEC welcomes Dr Motohide Matsui from the Railway Technical Research Institute in Japan. Dr Matsui will be guest researcher at CHARMEC for a year focusing on research on rolling contact fatigue of rails and wheels.

Posted: 2012-02-24
Shahab Teimourimanesh presented his licentiate-thesis Railway tread braking temperatures -- Numerical simulation and experimental studies February 23, 2012.
Discussion leader was Docent Ulf Sellgren, KTH, Sweden.
The abstract is available from Chalmers' library
The thesis can be obtained from the Department of Applied Mechanics.

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