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Technical Sessions FRIDAY, APRIL, 20

TRACK 6 SAFETY AND SECURITY 6-7 3:45pm - 5:45pm
FIRE SAFETY
Track Organizer: Dave Schlesinger, Parsons, Ontario, CA, United States Conference Level, Conference Center C

Track Co-Organizer: Greg Placencia, California Polytechnic University, Session Organizer: Matthew J. DiDomizio, Jensen Hughes, Baltimore, MD,
Pomona, CA, United States United States

6-6 3:45pm - 5:45pm Smoke Flow Control in Tunnels Using Natural Ventilation
Inspection & Analysis Technical Publication. JRC2018-6248
Conference Level, Frick Mark Colino, Elena Rosenstein, WSP USA, New York, NY, United States

Session Organizer: Daniel Milo, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Investigation of the Exposure from a Realistic Fire on a Railcar floor
Piscataway, NJ, United States Technical Publication. JRC2018-6251
Matthew J. DiDomizio, Charles Luo, Jensen Hughes, Baltimore, MD, United
Improved Beamforming Techniques for Ultrasonic Rail Defect Imaging States, Soroush Yazdani, Brian Lattimer, Jensen Hughes, Blacksburg, VA,
United States
Oral Presentation. JRC2018-6139

Francesco Lanza Di Scalea, Simone Sternini, Albert Liang, University
of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Robert Wilson, FRA,
Washington DC, DC, United States

Potential for High-speed Rail Inspection by Passive-Only Ultrasonic Fire Growth in Standard Tests and Railcars
Monitoring Technical Publication. JRC2018-6257
Charles Luo, Jensen Hughes, Baltimore, MD, United States, Soroush
Oral Presentation. JRC2018-6140 Yazdani, Brian Lattimer, Jensen Hughes, Blacksburg, VA, United States

Francesco Lanza Di Scalea, Albert Liang, Simone Sternini, Xuan “Peter” Xu, TRACK 9 ELECTRIFICATION
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Margherita Track Organizer: John Grantham, Atkins, Brookeville, MD, United States
Capriotti, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States, Robert Wilson, FRA,
Washington DC, DC, United States

A Literature Review of Rail Defect Causal Factors 9-2 3:45pm - 5:45pm
ELECTRIFICATION SESSION NO. 2
Technical Publication. JRC2018-6162 Conference Level, Oliver

Daniel Milo, Liana Principe, Xiang Liu, Kang Zhou, Jieyi Deng, Rutgers, Thyristor Controlled Rectifier Testing Using Scaling Theory
The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, United States

Technical Publication. JRC2018-6133

A Safety Risk Model for US Railroad Operations Vitaly Gelman, VG Controls, Oakland, NJ, United States

Oral Presentation. JRC2018-6208 Proper Testing of High-Speed DC Circuit-Breakers in a Railway
Environment.
Jeffrey Gordon, US DOT/Federal Railroad Administration, Cambridge, MA, Technical Publication. JRC2018-6237
United States, Anand Prabhakaran, John Tunna, Sadagopa Krishnamachari, Wim D’Hooghe, STEVO Electric, Heppen, Belgium
Sharma & Associates, Inc., Countryside, IL, United States

Transient Stability of Rotary Frequency Converter Fed Low Frequency
Railway Grids: The Impact of Different Grid Impedances and Different
Converter Station Configurations.

28 Technical Publication. JRC2018-6247

John Laury, Lars Abrahamsson, Math Bollen, Lulea University of Technology,
(LTU), Skelleftea, Sweden