Heavy rail / Urban light rail

Brake testing on open line

Measure the braking performance and associated forces for the type approval or development of any kind of rolling stock.

Objectives

  • Develop, validate and measure braking performance during:
    – Tests carried out on a trainset, a convoy or a traction unit
    – Slip brake tests on all kinds of rail vehicles
  • Characterize under normal and degraded wheel/rail adhesion: Emergency brake, service brake, locking brake, parking brake
  • Determine key parameters: Equivalent response time, jerk, corrected stopping distance, average equivalent deceleration
  • Monitor related parameters: Pressure in brake cylinders, brake component temperature, axle speed, test conditions (temperature, relative humidity)
  • Characterize and qualify brake parts
  • Measure forces applied to the wheels and discs

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Test
facilities

  • Tachometric measuring device
  • Doppler radar
  • GPS
  • Measuring system for various types of parameters: Temperature (disc/wheel), acceleration, voltage and current (electric brake, magnetic pad, etc.), pressure, etc.
  • Brake activation device
  • Track watering system

Accreditations

ISO/IEC 17025 awarded by COFRAC

Our
references

Satisfied customers

ALSTOM
BOMBARDIER
RATP
STADLER
ROUEN TRAMWAY
SIEMENS

Norms

- Loc and Pass TSI -

- EN 13452-1 & -2 -

Braking – Mass transit brake systems –
Part 1: Performance requirements.
Part 2: Methods of test

- UIC 540 -

Air Brakes for freight trains and passenger trains

- UIC 541-03/04/05 -

Brakes - Regulations concerning manufacture of the different brake parts

- UIC 544-1 -

Braking power

- TSI -

Rolling Stock - Conventional rail, High speed, Freight wagons

- STM F014 -

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