Ethiopia has recently finished constructing the first Light Rail Transit (LRT), in the history of the country. Our new experience demands other pioneer countries’ huge experience on LRT track inspection methods, frequency and maintenance tolerance limits. In this study, different track...
The general objective of this thesis is to analyze effect of change of radiuses curvature of Rail profile on contact fatigue stress using analytic and finite element software’s. The formulation in this study aims primarily at determination of stresses and fatigue parameters by varying...
A railroad switch is a device, which enable a rail vehicle to change from one track to another track byrnmeans of pair of linked tapering rails known as points or point blades that are lying between the divergingrnouter rails (the stock rails). These points can be moved laterally in to one of the...
Condition based monitoring is gaining much importance in the industry because of the need to increase machine reliability and reduce the potential loss of production due to breakdowns caused by different defects. In this thesis, we are interested in a condition based monitoring techniques using...
This thesis presents the application of composite of composite for the AALRT car body structure.In the past few decades emission of gases by the vehicle has got attention due to its immense effect on the environment. The amount a gas mitted by the vehicle is directly related with the amount of fuel...
Ethiopia is building a modern and reliable railway transportation industry to fulfill the needs of transportation system, in which one of the main considerations in building the railway transportation system is safety of the passenger and driver’s crew.rnThis thesis will attempt to redesign...
In this research thesis an attempt is made to contribute towards a better understanding of seismic response of deep tunnel using the specific case of the railway tunnel at Karakore, located in one of the active seismic zones of Ethiopia known as escarpment seismic zone. Since stresses due to...
One of the major problem in ballasted railroad is ballast flying and it should be studied and has to be minimized. Ballast flying is defined as the projection of ballast particles from its resting position as the train pass over the track structure. Ballast particles become airborne by overcoming...
Nowadays, development cannot be achieved without modern infrastructure capacity. The new railway project which links Addis Ababa to Djibouti aims to fulfill this task through safety and reliability as major goals. Railway operating near their theoretical capacity is particularly vulnerable to...
The bogie frame accommodates various bogie equipment and is generally fabricated by welding together two cross beam into H-shaped frame, compound side beams were developed using press welding. This research paper presents the fatigue strength analysis for the composite bogie frame of AALRT. The...
Extensive investments in transport are currently being carried out in Ethiopia. A substantial partrnconsists of railway projects with some underground/tunnel constructions.rnThis research deals with assessment of potential causes of construction delay in tunnels; a casernstudy at Awash-Weldiya...
Thermal damage caused by frictional heat of rolling-sliding contact is one of the most importantrnfailure forms of wheel and rail. The coupled mechanical–thermal behavior of wheel and railrnmaterials under rolling contact is studied to determine the temperature rise due to the...
Concrete is a material that needs strengthening in tension in order to meet the structuralrnrequirements. New techniques of strengthening concrete, besides the usual ordinaryrnreinforcement bars, are developing; fiber reinforced concrete is one of them. Fibrernreinforcement is a method that has...
The overhead line and pantograph is the two contacting bodies Wear on overhead line is one of the greatest problems in the railway industry. To overcome the problem of wear on overhead line different studies have been made. A better material selection that can withstand material loss due to sliding...
This research paper present develops a material for improving the fatigue strength of the bogie frame of AARLT. The purpose of this research is to compare between the current material and selected material in order to protect the bogie frame from failure. In the analysis of the research ANSYS and...
Station is a basic production unit of railway transportation, integrating technical equipment relating to transportation. For the last couple of years investigations have been conducted in Ethiopia in railway site selection. One of that is the Addis Ababa light railway, where two alternative rights...
Wheel and rail is one of the most important material used to support and guide rail vehicle safelyrnand smoothly. Since wheel and rail suffers from various interacting mechanical and thermalrnforces, friction modifiers, various contaminants and environmental atmosphere, wear poses largernproblem on...
The Tahtai Logomti area is dominated by the Neoproterozoic basement rocks of Northern Ethiopia, occurred between the Adwa and Mai Kenetal blocks and covered by metavolcano-sedimentary rocks which belong to the Tambien and Tsaliet Groups and are part of the Arabian Nubian Shield. In this study, the...
Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.), is a staple crop with high nutritional profile cultivated mainly in developing countries and widely cultivated in Ethiopia. It is an allotetraploid (2n= 4x= 36 chromosomes), that belongs to the Poaceae family. It is characterized by its ability to...
Now a days there is no clear understanding of how pulsar's magnetic _eld decays.rnThis is the motivation behind the development of this particular model for pulsar _eldrndissipation. The work will be based on previous work in which it was shown that spinningrnpolarization charges are the most...