Triennial Report 2003 - CHARMEC

charmec have been invited to take part. The thirdmeeting was held in Germany at the research centre inMinden and the maintenance shop in Nuremberg on25-26 September 2000, and the fourth meeting in Swedenin Luleå and Malmberget on 11-13 June 2001. The fifthmeeting took place in Germany in Munich on 3-4 September2002. charmec attended all these meetings.Abetong Teknik’s symposiumOn 29 May 2001, Abetong Teknik organized a symposiumin railway mechanics for their worldwide licenseesand other business partners. About 50 people fromAustria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, theNetherlands, Norway, South Africa, South Korea,Sweden and Switzerland attended. charmec’s researcherscontributed with seven lectures. The symposium washeld at Kungälv, Sweden.CRC in AustraliaA co-operative Research Centre for Railway Engineeringand Technologies, abbreviated Rail crc, was startedin Australia in 2001 with Professor Dudley Roach ofCentral Queensland University in Rockhampton asChief Executive Officer. He visited charmec on 4-5October 2001 for discussions about the organization ofour Centre. Later Roger Lundén was appointed memberof the Technology Advisory Committee for Rail crc.On 5-6 August 2003, Roger Lundén visited Rail crc inAustralia to take part in an evaluation of the standingof that Centre regarding quality and the relevance of itsresearch programme.Six Australian universities and five railway enterprisesparticipate in Rail crc which was established and is supportedunder the Australian Government’s CooperativeResearch Centres Program. The mission is formulatedas follows: “To deliver valuable research, knowledge andinnovation to the railway industry and its stakeholdersusing an internationally collaborative approach”. A cooperationbetween Rail crc and charmec is foreseen.Heavy haulInternational Heavy Haul Associationcharmec’s work to support the upgrading to 30 tonneaxle load of the Iron Ore Line (Malmbanan/Ofotbanen)in northern Sweden and Norway has continued duringStage 3, see the charmec Triennial Report from Stage 2,page 44. Our two contributions to the Brisbane conferencehave now been presented and published:Roger Lundén, Thomas Nordmark and Björn Paulsson: Enhancingiron ore transportation in Sweden, Proceedings 7thInternational Heavy Haul Conference, Brisbane (Australia)June 2001, pp 91-106Robert Fröhling, Tord Karlsson and Roger Lundén: NewLKAB iron ore wagons with self-steering bogies and rapidunloading system, ibidem, pp 161-166The 8th ihhc (International Heavy Haul Conference)will be held in June 2005 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.charmec is a member of the local organization nhh(Nordic Heavy Haul).Yet another report on heavy haul isRoger Lundén, Johan Marais and Stefan Schrader: Developingwheelsets for 30 tonne axle loads, Railway Gazette International,September 2001, pp 631-634Johan Marais is Principal Engineer at Spoornet RailwayEngineering in Silverton, Pretoria, rsa, and StefanSchrader Project Engineer at Bombardier Transportationin Kassel, Germany.Nordic seminars in railway technologycharmec’s researchers have presented their work atthe annual Nordic seminars in Stockholm on 7-8 March2001 (7 contributions), Borlänge on 14-15 March 2002(10 contributions) and Copenhagen on 31 March – 1 April2003 (2 contributions). These presentations have notbeen listed under the projects.Nordic Rail fairAt the 4th and 5th Nordic Rail fairs at the Elmia premisesin Jönköping on 2-4 October 2001 and 7-9 October2003, charmec shared a stand with kth Railway Group,vinnova and the Swedish Transport and CommunicationsResearch Board (vti). Our research projectswere displayed on wall plates, four seminars were heldat each of the fairs (not listed under the projects) andprinted material was distributed. Several valuable contactswith the railway industry have been (re)establishedat Nordic Rail. A report including a reproduction of thewall plates isBengt Åkesson: Chalmers Järnvägsmekanik (Chalmers RailwayMechanics, in Swedish), SVIB VibrationsNytt, vol 19, no 3, 2001,pp 22-2971