Engineering, Test and Testing Equipment
| Bodycote Testing Group | ||
Viscometers used for oil condition monitoring in engines, gearboxes, final drives and hydraulic systems. |
Oil analysis equipment used to give an indication of a railway vehicle's suitability for continued use and the condition of components within the vehicle. |
Bodycote Testing deals with the complex area of fire safety engineering including design checking, fire investigation, risk assessment, litigation and all aspects of fire safety management. |
An electrochemical cell used for corrosion tests. Bodycote Testing specialises in testing composite materials, the core services including mechanical, metallurgical, analytical, corrosion testing and failure investigation. |
Coatings evaluation using a salt spray cabinet. |
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| DeltaRail Group | ||
DeltaRail provides an integrated suite of condition-monitoring systems and decision support tools to manage the complex requirements of complying with demanding safety and operational standards. |
Our consultancy services include revenue and income management, retail, operations improvement and modelling (including time tabling), performance analysis and programmes, commercial, regulatory and policy development, and assessment. |
DeltaRail provides expertise on signalling and signalling control through products such as IECC, SSI and RETB. |
DeltaRail develops and maintains core engineering expertise and knowledge for application in the railway environment. |
VAMPIRE® is the world's leading railway vehicle dynamics simulation package – it allows the user to build a virtual model of any rail vehicle and run it over measured track geometry. |
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| Henry Butcher International - Disposals and Valuations | ||
Scaled model of 1,000mm gauge cross braced freight bogie. |
Ore load measuring cell. |
Adjustable portal test rig frame. |
50t hydraulic actuator. |
Avery 2000 ounce bullion beam balance scale. |
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| NDT Systems & Services | ||
AURA - Automated Ultrasonic Wheel Set Inspection System (front view). |
AURA - Automated Ultrasonic Wheel Set Inspection System (overview transducer/sensor carrier). |
RWI - Rail Wheel Inspection, overview of the ultrasonic wheel inspection system including gripping device. |
AUROPA - Automated Roll Over System for High Speed Trains. |
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| Rail Sciences | ||
Traction motor testing in Estonia. |
VERSE testing training in Canada. |
Automated Truck Performance Measurement System (ATPMS) calibration rig setup. |
Bearing end cap finite element analysis. |
Fatigue testing of elastic fastener in the lab. |
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| Strainstall | ||
Strainstall systems monitor a complex array of parameters in the dynamic and often critical functions of rail tracks, bridges, traffic, vehicles and components. |
Analysis and train characterisation is provided by TrackAlert, our specialist system for monitoring rail traffic. |
Working mainly with consultants and bridge owners, our comprehensive bridge service not only deals with instrumentation and monitoring, but aims to provide access to the information that is really needed about a particular structure. |
Strainstall offer rail operators and infrastructure maintainers a comprehensive range of site services and products which includes sensor installation, dynamic testing and stress analysis of vehicles and components. |
Strainstall design, assemble, programme, install and operate monitoring systems of varying complexity. |
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| Ultrasonic Sciences | ||
Inspection of a wheel in a manufacturing cell – testing with the wheel vertical is the preferred method. |
Two electronics systems for wheel ultrasonic testing installations in India. |
Ultrasonic inspection of a wheel on an underfloor wheel lathe. |
Mobile testing system for ultrasonic inspection of hollow axles – shown here inspecting a calibration axle. |
Hollow axle inspection system in operation at a maintenance depot. |
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