Railway Forum

Railway Forum

A new trend with composites: Weight reduction & fire protection efficiency
Composite and lightweight material: Is a 100% composite based rolling stock realistic? • Lightweight material and fire safety issue: Impact of the new European standardization


Wednesday March 28 – 2:30pm / 5:00pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Composite and lightweight material: Is a 100% composite based rolling stock realistic?


1 - The feed-back from the exploiting body: Use of composite materials in railway applications


SNCF, Centre d’Ingénierie du Matériel (CIM)
Bernard Roure (France)
Operations Executive - Materials Department

 

Patrick Jumin (France)
Operations Executive - Materials Department
 

 

· Return of experience on the current standards management and knowledge on past, present and new designs
· Research of the SNCF in composite materials in several projects
· Validation of composite structures: the experts of SNCF must be able to foresee their behaviour and impacts on Life Cycle Cost


2 - Advanced lightweight composite materials for railway applications


Advanced Composites Group
Richard Horn (GB)
Rail Market Manager
 
· Advanced lightweight materials & Weight reduction
· Safety features, fire and impact performance
· Case study: Bombardier Transportation UK

 

 
3 - Design approaches in lightweight vehicles


Creactive Design
Neil Bates (GB)
Director

· Improved train environments and journey-experience for the customer
· Weight saving
· Lower energy demand and fuel efficiency
· Renovation factored into the design life-cycle
· Improved whole-life cost, making this train a very attractive proposition



Lightweight material and fire safety issue: Impact of the new European standardization

 

4 - Key changes and impacts on material development for railway market in connection with the TS 45545 release


CREPIM
Franck Poutch (France)
Technical Director


· The 5 Ws of the TS 45545
· The impact of stringent regulation especially the heat release parameter on material development
· The consequences on strategy development to release compliant FR material
· Case studies and FR review

 

 

5 - Resin producer solutions for CEN 45545-2: Coating, Gel-Coat and UP Resins meet HL1, HL2 & HL3


Walter Mäder AG
Paul Wartenweiler (Switzerland)
Marketing & Sales Manager

· CEN 45545-2 Status
· CEN 45545-2 Challenges and technologies to overcome them
· Mäder Total solutions

 

 

6 - Lightweight flame retardant thermosets composites with low smoke generation


Abmaco
Waldomiro Moreira (Brazil)
Sales, Marketing & Technical Support


· Composites compounds based on thermoset polyester, fillers and additives that exceed the currently stringent standards
· Ultra low viscosity compound mostly developed for closed moulding processes such as RTM or VARTM
· Low cost, ultra-low viscosity halogen free, biobased unsaturated polyester resin